yarrow

• Edible pansies and sprigs of yarrow, thyme or mint plucked from beds that hug the restaurant offer their own fragrances to each dish. —  The Buddhist Channel
• [99] Millefolium or yarrow, worn in a little bag on the pit of the stomach is reported to have cured this disease, and Alexander of Tralles advises, for a quartan ague, that the patient must carry about some hairs from a goat's chin. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
• We left the train at a promising point and prepared to scuffle over a half-mile splotched with vervain and yarrow, yet to bloom, toward a long, thin range of trees that seemed to mark the course of some small stream. —  On the Stairs
• The leaves of the square-stemmed figwort, which they called 'cresset' or 'cressil,' were occasionally placed on a sore; and the yarrow--locally 'yarra'--was yet held in estimation as a salve or ointment It would be possible for any one to dwell a long time in the midst of a village, and yet never hear anything of this kind and obtain no idea whatever of the curious mixture of the grotesque, the ignorance and yet cleverness, which go to make up hamlet life. —  Round About a Great Estate
• Torn pink ragged robins through whose petals a comb seems to have been remorselessly dragged, blue scabious, red knapweeds, yellow rattles, yellow vetchings by the hedge, white flowering parsley, white campions, yellow tormentil, golden buttercups, white cuckoo-flowers, dandelions, yarrow, and so on, all carelessly sown broadcast without order or method, just as negligently as they are named here, first remembered, first mentioned, and many forgotten Highest and coarsest of texture, the red-tipped sorrel--a crumbling red--so thick and plentiful that at sunset the whole mead becomes reddened. —  Nature Near London

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