Crossword-Solution: LAMBKILL 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Here the north wind had swept the beak of the island clear; for scrubby bushes--lambkill, perhaps, or sweet-fern, or blueberry--parted rustling underfoot, with the frailest odor of dried herbs.

Saw the lambkill (_Kalmia angustifolia_) in blossom—a few fresh blossoms at _the ends_ of the fresh twigs—on Strawberry Hill, beautiful bright flowers.

Botany cannot go further than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there--the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora--all standing in the quaking sphagnum.

But seeing it was that girl--! And instead of getting her a proper tombstone, which he could well afford and which everybody supposed he would do, considering the store he set by her, he just planted on her grave a sprig of lambkill.

And such flowers as it bore--such deep and burning clusters as never would have passed for cousins, even, to the faint-flushed wax of the lambkill! The thing was unnatural enough in itself, Heaven knew.