Among them are the Scotch and spruce firs, Pinus sylvestris and Pinus abies, and the buckbean, or Menyanthes trifoliata, etc.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
It shares in an abundant measure the restorative antiseptic virtues of the Field Gentian and the buckbean.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
The leaves, which follow later on, are made often into cigars, or are smoked as British herbal tobacco, being mixed for this purpose with the dried leaves and flowers of the eye-bright, buckbean, betony, thyme, and lavender, to which some persons add rose leaves, and chamomile flowers.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie