It used to be called Flix, or Flux weed from being given with benefit in dysentery, a disease formerly known as the Flix.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
The story of the poor girl of Pornic, as Browning in a letter calls her, attracted him partly because it presented a psychological curiosity, partly because he cared to paint her hair in words,-gold in contrast with that pallid face-as much as his friend Rossetti might have wished to display a like splendour with the strokes of his brush: Hair such a wonder of Flix and floss, Freshness and fragrance-floods of it too!
"Robert Browning"
Edward Dowden