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The crocus and cowslip, low anemone and colts-foot begin to show, and the land brightens with waxy flowers of the huckleberry, set in delicate gamboge edging.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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We found here both arnica and colts-foot in great plenty.
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At one end it was open, with soft black loamy soil, covered with docks and colts-foot leaves under the shade of large but leafless willows, and here we picked up a good many scattered woodcock; afterward we got into the heavy thicket with much tangled grass, wherein we flushed a bevy, but they all took to tree, and we made very little of them; and here Tom Draw began to blow and labor; the covert was too thick, the bottom too deep and unsteady for him.
Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832
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