How To Use Centaurea In A Sentence
- Applied to a perianth, which is tough, thin, and femi-tranfparent; as in Statice Armaria, or Thrift, Centaurea glaf - The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
- She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, "Inspire me!" to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, "Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done! The French Immortals Series — Complete
- If you are sowing in spring, it's a good idea to make more than one sowing of the annuals because centaureas are not long-blooming plants.
- The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
- Sanguis upupoe cum melle compositus et centaurea, &c. Albertus. Anatomy of Melancholy
- The _sentori_ (_centaurea_) for instance -- plentiful there, with its sweetly pretty mauve flower -- when boiled in water gave a bitter decoction good for fever. Across Unknown South America
- It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- [46] Cramer, 'Bildungsabweichungen,' p. 56, tab. vii, fig. 10, figures a case wherein the two central flowers of the capitulum of _Centaurea Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- “They are centaurea,” Luke explained, “a form of cornflower.” Moments in Time
