cinquefoils

Found several dwarf cinquefoils in the same spot, as well as the same low blue flower species I got a shot of last year on this drive.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

Hercules; the claret colored walls adorned with gold cinquefoils of

Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

The walls were of the colour of claret and were adorned with golden cinquefoils regularly placed.

Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

During the Middle Ages, when misdirected zeal credited almost any plant with healing virtues for every ill that flesh is heir to, the cinquefoils were considered most potent remedies, hence their generic name.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

These are decorated with trefoils and quatrefoils, alternately with cinquefoils and octofoils.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

-- This is now ranged among the cinquefoils, though it has only four petals, owing perhaps to the very dry barren heathy soil it brightens with its stars.

John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

[39] The florets gathered in the daisy are cinquefoils, examined closely.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

_ Secondly, the change is effected in the _Charges_: thus, two William BARDOLFS (H. 3 and E.  2) severally bear -- _Az., three cinquefoils or_, and, _Az., three cinquefoils arg.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

As I have already shown, (page 183) a BERKELEY, who was of Leicestershire, substituted _ten cinquefoils_ for the ten crosses patée of the Berkeley Shield; and thus he combined feudal Differencing with Cadency.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

The arms of BARDOLF are -- _Az., three cinquefoils or_.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844