Citations:frost-blite

English citations of frost-blite

• 1835, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, page 235:

  The generic name CHENOPODIUM [...] was given on account of the form of the leaves of the early-included species. Of those, the best known are the Bonus Henricus, GOOD KING HENRY, Wild SPINAGE, or ALLGOOD, the leaves of which are often eaten as greens; the urbicum, or upright BLITE; the album, common ORACH, or FROST-BLITE; […]

mentions which identify the plant:

• 1824, James Edward Smith, The English Flora, page 13:

  7. Ch. album. White Goosefoot. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, […]

  Ch. album. Linn. Sp. Pl. 319. Willd. v. 1. 1302. Fl. Br. 275. Engl. Bot. v. 24. t. 1723. Curt. Lond. fasc. 2. t. 15. Hook. Scot. 84.

  Ch. n. 1578. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 266.

  Blitum, Atriplex sylvestris dictum. Raii Syn. 154.

  Atriplex sylvestris. Fuchs. Hist. 119. f.

  A. sylvestris prima. Camer. Epit. 241. f.

  Frost Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8. f. 2. […]

• 1866, James Britten, A Dictionary of English Plant-names, part 1,page 575:

  CHENOPODIUM. Goose-foot, Meals, Nightshade, Orach (Wild).

  CHENOPODIUM ALBUM, L. Biacon-weed, Dirtweed, Dirty Dick, + Dirty John, Drought-weed (?), + Fat Hen, Frost-blite, Hen-fat, *Johnny o'neele, Lamb's-quarters, […]

• 1867, P. Austin Nuttall, Routledge's pronouncing dictionary of the English language, page 264:

  Frost'blite, s. A plant; the orach.

• 1869, Zell's Popular Encyclopedia: A Universal Dictionary, page 963:

  Frost'-blite, n. (Bot.) The Orach, a plant of the genus Atriplex.