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• The generic Greek name of the greater celandine, meaning a swallow, was given it because it begins to bloom when the first returning swallows are seen skimming over the water and freshly ploughed fields in a perfect ecstasy of flight, and continues in flower among its erect seed capsules until the first cool days of autumn kill the gnats and small winged insects not driven to cover. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
• Well, I don't want people who favour strong central governments to negatively impact those of us who think of governments as arrogant, incompetent, intruders into the body politic of the nation. tom celandine High court rules in voting rights dispute
• The first flowering pulse of the year is yellow, characterised by lesser celandine and primrose.
• Spring flowers - celandines, primroses, violets, wood anemones - were followed by pyramid and early purple orchids, wild thyme and rockrose.
• Bluebells are nearing their peak in Nut Wood, where there are early red campion in flower, with lots of lesser celandine about, and moschatel at its climax.
• English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall. The Ladybird
• My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell. Times, Sunday Times
• There was jimson weed, which belonged more properly in fields, and celandine, and stinging nettles. The Unquiet
• Take a quart of lye prepared from the ashes of vine twigs, briony, celandine roots, and tumeric, of each half an ounce; saffron and lily roots, of each two drams; flowers of mullein, yellow stechas, broom, and St. John's wort, of each a dram. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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