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The drinking of the juice of the hedysarum gangeticum, the kuili, and the kshirika plant mixed with milk, produces the same effect.
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The seed of the long pepper along with the seeds of the sanseviera roxburghiana, and the hedysarum gangeticum plant, all pounded together, and mixed with milk, is productive of a similar result.
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I saw a few plants anchored in the less crumbling parts of the steep-faced bosses and steps -- parnassia, potentilla, hedysarum, lutkea, etc. The lower, rough-looking patches half way up the mountain are mostly alder bushes ten or fifteen feet high.
Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876
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Perhaps a brown grub or cut-worm, working away underground, will mow off a dahlia shoot here, and a fine seedling hedysarum there, with a few sweet peas and other trifles; making his night-meal of your most hopeful little plants, and leaving a mournful blank where yesterday stood the fresh young tuft of leaves.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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The drinking of the juice of the hedysarum gangeticum, the kuili, and the kshirika plant mixed with milk, produces the same effect.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Vatsyayana 1855
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The seed of the long pepper along with the seeds of the sanseviera roxburghiana, and the hedysarum gangeticum plant, all pounded together, and mixed with milk, is productive of a similar result.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Vatsyayana 1855
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Its flowers were now open, and added a new ornament to the woods, being little inferior to the flowers of the honey-suckle and hedysarum.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836
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Dr. Richardson found in the stomach of this animal the remains of a seal, several marmots (Arctomys richardsonii) a large quantity of the liquorice root of Mackenzie (hedysarum) which is common on these shores, and some berries.
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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Racks of packaged dried spices - some, like hedysarum manna, we'd never heard of - were along one side of the shop.
Thestar.com - Home Page Sandra Strong 2010
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Racks of packaged dried spices - some, like hedysarum manna, we'd never heard of - were along one side of the shop.
Thestar.com - Home Page Sandra Strong 2010
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