How To Use Centaurea In A Sentence
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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 ...
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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
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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.
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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
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Sanguis upupoe cum melle compositus et centaurea, &c. Albertus.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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“They are centaurea,” Luke explained, “a form of cornflower.”
Moments in Time
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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
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The oil from the seeds of cotton thistles was extracted for fuel and knapweed, centaurea scabiosa, was believed to promote healing of bruises and wounds.
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Those which now made the best show of bloom were the star-thistle centaurea and _ononis repens_.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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Many of the centaureas make good cut-flowers, but I like this one especially.
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Vitriolurii lW; t\s. ffenwi-l. a) Verbena; b) Centaurea scabiosa.
Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen
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Judging from Centaurea, the smaller lip of the bilabiate species of
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Of the perennial clumping centaureas, the best is Persian Bachelor Buttons.
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In Centaurea _cyanea_, the disposition of the limb of the ray is such that the incomplete part or the fissure is outside.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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The oil from the seeds of cotton thistles was extracted for fuel and knapweed, centaurea scabiosa, was believed to promote healing of bruises and wounds.
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Blue cornflower, centaurea cyanus, volunteers with a stipa tenuissima at the right.
Blue In The Garden-Part One « Fairegarden
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A new strain of Marguerite centaureas has a better form and more substance to the blossoms.
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Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- Border, Oxalis tropæoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus argenteus, or centaurea; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia; corners, inside border, santolina.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tender centaureas are valued for summer bedding on account of their pure silvery or bluish tinted white foliage.
