Lexicographical Neighbors of Ledums
Literary usage of Ledums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... their thorn-apples ; the Florida Indians their emetic-holly ; Northern Europe
and America their ledums and sweet gale, &c. " No nation so ancient," says ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... America their ledums and sweet-gale,—the Englishman and German their hop, and
the Frenchman his lettuce." No nation so ancient bat has had its narcotic ..."
3. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"may say, their tobacco ; the Florida Indians their emetic holly; Northern Europe
and America their ledums and sweet gale ; the Englishman and German their ..."
4. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"The lesser plants were principally vaccinium, ledums, and some
candleberry-bushes (myrica). On the 27th, they reached the Flying-Fish, then in
Baker's Bay, ..."
5. Oregon and California in 1848 by Jessy Quinn Thornton (1864)
"... ledums, Myrica, Oberonia, and Vaccinium. The sweet flowering pea grows
spontaneously, and greatly embellishes some portions of the country. ..."
6. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"SAND 'MYRTLE' (152) is a hardy small, 1 to 3 ieet, densely branched evergreen
shrub similar to the ledums, with small thick oval rolled- ..."
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