buck-bean

It was rather a difficult matter to get the girls along, so many interesting discoveries were made on the way -- first a patch of pink-fringed buck-bean, growing at the edge of the stream; then a clump of butterfly orchis; and last, but not least, a quantity of the beautiful "Grass of Parnassus", the delicate white blossoms of which were starring the boggy corner of a meadow.

The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

The villarsia, which looks like a water-lily, is not related at all, while the buck-bean is not

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

The emerald edges of these silent tarns are starred with dandelions which have strayed here, one scarce knows how, from their foreign home; the buck-bean perchance grows in the water, or the Rhodora fixes here one of its shy camping-places, or there are whole skies of lupine on the sloping banks; -- the catbird builds its nest beside us, the yellow-bird above, the wood-thrush sings late and the whippoorwill later, and sometimes the scarlet tanager and his golden-haired bride send a gleam of the tropics through these leafy aisles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

_F_), the buck-bean (_Menyanthes_), the centauries (_Erythræa_ and

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

The very waters are strewn with flowers: the buck-bean, the water-violet, the elegant flowering rush, and the queen of the waters, the pure and splendid white lily, invest every stream and lonely mere with grace. "[

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

The leaves of buck-bean are to be {»atnere (t before the stalks appear ftjr (iowerinjr, and are to be dried; the powder of them will cure agues, but tlicir great use is against the rheumatism: for tias purpose they are to be given for a con - linuance of time in infusion, or iix the manner of tea.

The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ... John Hill, Charles Brightly, T. Kinnersley 1812