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Use primrose and St. - John's-wort, cowslip and rosemary, some bloodstone on your altar.
Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001
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And for your greenwound, your balsamum, and your St. John's-wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Here and there older fragments of wall lined the road, and over one of these, from a height of eight feet or so, dropped a curtain of glossy, pointed leaves, making a background for the star-shaped yellow blossoms, nearly as large as passion-flowers, of the St. John's-wort, with their forest of stamens standing out like golden threads from the heart of the blossom.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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The Shrubby St. John's-wort (_H. prolificum_) bears yellow blossoms, about half an inch across, which are provided with stamens so numerous, the many flowered terminal clusters have a soft, feathery effect.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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The petals of Jerusalem artichoke and St. - John's-wort dyed yellow.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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This is in flower now, and will be till September; and St. - John's-wort, which some call the false goldenrod, is already here.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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This is in flower now, and will be till September; and St. - John's-wort, which some call the false goldenrod, is already here.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Where there are bushes and shrubs, the St. John's-wort and Honeysuckle grow abundantly, while the Imperial
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Here is herb Robert in flower -- its leaves are scarlet; a leaf of St. John's-wort, too, has become scarlet; the bramble leaves are many shades of crimson; one plant of tormentil has turned yellow.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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Hypericum mutilum (small St. John's-wort), both years, common.
The Maine Woods 1858
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