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Bedstraw   Listen
noun
Bedstraw  n.  
1.
Straw put into a bed.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum.
White bedstraw is Galium mollugo.






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"Bedstraw" Quotes from Famous Books



... such as woad, weld, heather, walnut, alder, oak, some lichens; and many of the less important ones would produce valuable colours if experiments were made with the right mordants. Those which have been in use in the Highlands are most of them good dyes. Among these are Ladies Bedstraw, whortleberry, yellow iris, bracken, bramble, meadow sweet, alder, heather and many others. The yellow dyes are most plentiful and many of these are good fast colours. Practically no good red, in quantity, ...
— Vegetable Dyes - Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer • Ethel M. Mairet



Words linked to "Bedstraw" :   waldmeister, Galium verum, woodruff, Our Lady's bedstraw, goose grass, Galium lanceolatum, clivers, herbaceous plant, wild licorice, Galium boreale, wild madder, yellow cleavers, Northern snow bedstraw, Asperula odorata, catchweed, yellow bedstraw, cleavers, Galium mollugo, fragrant bedstraw, sweet woodruff, false baby's breath, spring cleavers, genus Galium, herb, Galium odoratum, infant's-breath, Galium, Galium aparine, white bedstraw, white madder



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