Scabious, Wood-betony, Brown-mayweed, Mints, Avence, Tormentil, carduus benedictus, and Rosemary as much as of anything else, and Angelica if you will.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
After all this abuse of the giant thistle, the Cardo asnal of the natives and carduus mariana of the botanists, it may sound odd to say that a "thistle year" was a blessing in some ways.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
All sorts of herbs were put upon the market to offset its popularity; such as onions, sage, marjoram, the Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.
"The Little Tea Book"
Arthur Gray