Sweet-gale

Also 7 -gaule. [See SWEET a. GALE sb.¹] The bog myrtle, Myrica Gale.

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1640. Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 1451. Rhus sylvestris sive Myrtus Brabantica aut Anglica. Sweete Gaule.

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1838. Mary Howitt, Birds & Fl., Pheasant, iii. The spicy sweet-gale.

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1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot. (1862), 128. The Sweet Gale … has amentaceous achlamydeous flowers.

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1851. Tennyson, E. Morris, 110. I … heard … The Sweet-Gale rustle round the shelving keel.

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