How To Use Equisetum In A Sentence
- Equisetum are known as horsetails, foxtails, or scouring rushes - this last name is derived from the fact that Equisetum stores granules of silica within its cells, making it an effective tool for scrubbing pots and polishing wood.
- Near the river there are also to be found carpets of a uniform green, consisting of a short kind of Equisetum, unmixed with any other plants, which forms a "gazon," to which no nobleman's country seat can show a match. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
- Give the child lots of warm herb teas, especially horsetail (equisetum), which cleanses the kidneys.
- Horsetails or equisetum can be your nightmare if you have recently laid tarmacadam.
- And there began a growth of rushes and equisetum and potamogeton that ended only with the drying of the pond. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
- You know what lovely little fern or equisetum stalks of sapphire the filaments are; they beat me so, but they're coming nice. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston
- The chief of these is equisetum, known as marestail or horsetail, a plant which rapidly chokes fields of soya if not controlled.
- She examined three caves, and each one was yellow from pollen belonging to hollyhocks, grape hyacinth, yellow yarrow (Achillea), horsetail (Equisetum), seven other summer flowering plants, and evidence of pine branches. Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers
- _Equisetum silvaticum_ is our rarest horsetail; and our only clubmoss is Hertfordshire
- To reduce the size of the spleen, the Greek athletes used certain beverages, the composition of which was not generally known; the Romans had a similar belief and habit Pliny speaks of a plant called equisetum, a decoction of which taken for three days after a fast of twenty-four hours would effect absorption of the spleen. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
