cuculi

For few innocent minded persons would ever guess that Alyssum saxatile meant golden basket, or that Lychnis flos-cuculi and ragged robin were one and the same.

Gardening by Myself 1872

The Crow-flower is now the Buttercup, [67: 1] but in Shakespeare's time it was applied to the Ragged Robin (_Lychnis flos-cuculi_), and I should think that this was the flower that poor Ophelia wove into her garland.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

In Cocachacra, however, I heard one of these birds which repeated its _cuculi_ fourteen times.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

There are, however, some of those birds which repeat the _cuculi_ oftener than thrice, and their price increases according to the number of their uninterrupted repetitions, which seldom exceed five or six.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

It grows on low meadows, where in Europe the Mea - dow-pinks, or Lychnis fios cuculi, would be met with.

Travels into North America : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general, with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects 1770

EH etiamTrifolij ffecies, quemTnfolium acetofum, & panem cuculi vocanffeplajix, A iieluya.

Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550