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ˈflea-bane
[See bane.]
A name given to various plants: esp. a. A book-name for the genus Inula (or Pulicaria), esp. Inula dysenterica and I. Pulicaria.
1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 30 Coniza maye be called in englishe Flebayne. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 35 The Gnats also be..chased away with the decoction of the herbe named Flebane, sprinckled on the beds. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxiv. 391 Conyza from time to time hath been called in English Fleabane. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. xiv. xv. 1232 Conyza palustris major, the greater Marsh or water Fleabane. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 394 The Flea-banes middle (dysenterica) and less (pulicaria) are of this genus (Inula). 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 243 The flea-banes (Pulicaria) noted for smoking off fleas.
b. A book-name for the genus Erigeron, esp. E. acre (called also blue fleabane).
1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 364 The fleabane of Canada has only lately been found in Europe. 1820Green Univ. Herbal I. 513 English botanists have named it [Erigeron acre] blue-flowered or purple flea bane. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 220 Philadelphia Flea Bane. Scabious. Erigeron philadelphicum. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 190 The drier ground was starred with white and pink Alpine flea-bane (Erigeron Alp.).
c. Applied to Plantago Psyllium (from the appearance of the seed).
1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxx. 104 This herbe is called in..Latine Psyllium and Herba Pulicaris..in English Fleawurte and Fleabane. 1597[see fleawort]. |