How To Use Polygala In A Sentence
- The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
- [11] Rattlesnake root -- Botanical, _Polygala senega_ -- being an active stimulant, will counteract the bite of this most poisonous of reptiles. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
- Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
- Typical of the family Polygalaceae, the anterior petal is keel-like, with a lobed multifid crest.
- I usually find it and the fringed polygala in bloom at the same time; the lady's-slipper is a little later. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
- The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
- The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
- In a few cases which have come under my observation, I have found this and the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) convenient and useful prescriptions in this disease; the latter, with tartar emetic solution, to promote expectoration; and the former, with flaxseed tea, as a stimulant diaphoretic, combining them with spirits of turpentine when it has assumed the typhoid form. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- Additionally, it has also been suggested that polygalacturonase action on the pectin network may enhance the action of other cell wall-degrading enzymes by increasing the accessibility of such enzymes to their substrates.
- I usually find it and the fringed polygala in bloom at the same time; the lady's-slipper is a little later. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
