Crossword-Solution: GROUNDSEL 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Viola Odorata--or sweet sented violet, yields to alcohol a rich blue color, which it imparts in high perfection to paper Senecio Splendens--or double purple groundsel, yields a beautiful color to paper.

There was always a superfluity of broad beans—it took nine or ten of Adam’s strides to get to the end of the uncut grass walk that ran by the side of them; and as for other vegetables, there was so much more room than was necessary for them that in the rotation of crops a large flourishing bed of groundsel was of yearly occurrence on one spot or other.

Here are two kinds: in one the tubular cells radiate from the centre, giving it the appearance of a tiny compound flower, daisy or groundsel; in the other they are crossed with waving grooves, giving the whole a peculiar fretted look, even more beautiful than that of the former species.

Well then, do rich grasses come up on them, now that they are broken up? Oh no, nothing but groundsel, and a few weeds.

Among the tall stems of steppe grass waved large, glossy leaves of ergot; in the sunlight splinters of broken glass sparkled as though they were laughing; and, from two spots in the dark brown plot which formed a semicircle around the cemetery, there projected, like teeth, two buildings the new yellow paint of which nevertheless made them look mean and petty amid the tangle of rubbish, pigweed, groundsel, and dock.