sulphurwortn.
An umbelliferous plant, Peucedanum officinale, having pale-yellow flowers; hog's fennel. marsh sulphurwort, P. palustre.
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swine's fennel?a1425
swine's finkle?a1450
hog's fennel1525
dog fennel1526
harstrang1562
mountain parsley1578
sow-fennel1578
sulphurwort1578
much good1597
rock parsley1597
milky parsley1640
brimstone-wort1678
marsh milkweed1787
milk parsley1787
sea sulphur-wort1807
sea sulphur-weed1850
sulphur-weed1850
sea hog's-fennel1855
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 298 Of Horestrange or Sulphurwort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 896 Svlphurwoort or Hogs Fennell, hath a stiffe and hard stalke full of knees or knots.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 1049 Sicilian Thapsos burn'd with Sulphurwort.
1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 83.
1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 596.
1906 Essex Rev. 15 167 The rare sulphur-wort..is still abundant at Landermere.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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