Lexicographical Neighbors of Itchweed
Literary usage of Itchweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"American Hellebore (Veratrum viride), or bear-corn, bug-bane, earth-gall, itchweed,
etc.; it is an acrid narcotic poison, and has emetic, diaphoretic and ..."
2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... (2) (itchweed, Indian poke, white hellebore. O. g. J. i;.)racemes panicled;
bracts of the brandies lance-oblong, the bract of the flowers longer than ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1876)
"... 'and others which are popularly applied to many different plants in Central
and South America, or like baytree, winter- green, horseweed, itchweed, ..."
4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Sulphur ointments, carbolic-acid washes, corrosive sublimate in weak solution,
and decoction of tobacco or of the green leaves of Indian poke, or itchweed, ..."
5. The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts: A Comprehensive Survey of the World by Harry Thurston Peck, Auld, Robert Campbell McCombie (1912)
"... belong to a different genus, the latter being the Indian poke or itchweed
frequent on damp lands from Canada as far south as the Carolinas. Heim'et. ..."
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