"Purslain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fluxes. Besides the fruits already enumerated, there were many other vegetables extremely conducive to the cure of the malady we had long laboured under, such as water-melons, dandelion, creeping purslain, mint, scurvy-grass, and sorrel; all which, together with the fresh meats of the place, we devoured with great eagerness, prompted thereto by the strong inclination which nature never fails of exciting in scorbutic disorders for these powerful specifics. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... infusion of herbs or flowers—roses, elder, cloves, &c.; but it was not much before the sixteenth century that it was used for pickling herbs or fruits and vegetables, such as gherkins, onions, cucumber, purslain, &c. ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix |
