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  • The stones were mixed: evening blue, blue-weed blue, mountain lake blue, corn green.

    Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

  • – Most of the weeds which infest our wheat-fields, come from the Old World, – the deceitful chess, the corn-cockle, the Canada-thistle, tares, the voracious red-root, the blue-weed, or bugloss, with others of the same kind.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • Some years ago, and by some means or other, the viper's bugloss, or blue-weed, which is said to be a troublesome weed in Virginia, effected a lodgment near the head of the Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson.

    The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

  • If the mullein were fragrant, or toadflax, or the daisy, or blue-weed, or goldenrod, they would doubtless be far less troublesome to the agriculturist.

    The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

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