ˈlavender ˈcotton
A name for Ground cypress (Santolina Chamæcyparissus); formerly confused with Artemisia Abrotanon or maritima.
| 1530 Palsgr. 237/2 Lavendre cotten, cipres. 1538 Turner Libellus, Lavender cotton, Absinthium. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 66 b, Lavender cotten,..some call it..Santonia and female Sothernewood. 1579 Langham Gard. Health (1633) 349 Lauender cotton, or garden Cypers, drunke with wine, is good against all poyson & venom: it is the female kind of Sothernwood. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 37 Lavender-Cotton,..Camomile, Lavender-tops..of each of these Herbs a small Handful. 1882 Garden 17 June 427/1 As edging plants..Lavender Cotton. |