† 1. A species of stonecrop, Sedum album, with worm-like leaves. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. lxxvii. 114. Wilde Prickmadam, great Stone Croppe, or Worme grasse.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cxxxvi. 414.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Worm-Grass, an Herb that kills Worms.
2. The Pinkroot, Spigelia marilandica, of the Southern U.S., the root and leaves of which are used as a vermifuge. Also applied to S. Anthelmia.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 156. Anthelmenthia … Spigelia … Worm-grass.
1786. Abercrombie, Arrangem., 66, in Gard. Assist., Spigelia marilandica, or Mariland worm grass, or Carolina India pink.
1822. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 375. The Indian-pinks, or worm-grasses … s[pigelia] anthelmia, and s. Marylandica.
1864. Grisebach, Flora W. Ind. Isl., 789. Worm-grass, Spigelia Anthelmia.
