单词 | moonwort |
例句 | Thin, green marsh fern circled lakes alongside moonwort, rattlesnake fern and horsetail. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z This power of the moonwort is said to be still believed in in Normandy, and a similar virtue was also ascribed to the vervain and the mandrake, both associated with rue. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore But it was only a big bunch of moonwort on a stained-glass-window sill, and the wind was blowing through a vacancy that should have been a date, and making Æolian music. Somehow Good Four kinds of maidenhair, always light and graceful and attractive, are found; and of ferns common to Europe, Osmunda regalis, the Royal fern of Europe, and the European moonwort and alder's-tongue ferns. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Culpeper, the herbalist, to illustrate the powers of the plant moonwort, tells of a wonderful incident that occurred to Lord Essex's horse, presumably when his army was here in 1644. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts "Horses that feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home Their maister musing where their shoes be gone." The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada With regard to the association with moonwort, it is interesting to recall that this is one of the plants supposed to be employed by birds for opening nests and removing impediments. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore The moonwort is supposed to be a very supernatural plant, and to have the power of opening locks if you place a leaf of it in the keyhole. Monitress Merle Divine Weekes"— "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home, Their maister musing where their shoes become. The Folk-lore of Plants I have the wild rosehip, and the flat shield of the moonwort, and a pea-pod, and more whose names I know not. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest One could easily find a rationalistic explanation of this sentiment, of course, but it is akin to a superstition entertained in some parts that wherever the moonwort flourishes the owner of the garden is honest. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore |
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