culver key (kulverke)

[Appar. Looking down the meadows, [I] could see, here a boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and there a girl cropping culver keys and cowslips. I. Walton , Complete Angler, xi. Purple narci us like the morning rays, Pale gander-gra , and azure culverkeyes . J. Davors, quoted in I. Walton's Complete Angler, i. Culver's-physic (kul'vėrz-fiz'ik), n. [After a Dr. Culver, who used it in his practice.) The popular name of Veronica ( Leptandra ) Virginica, The thick, blackish root has a nauseous, bitter taste, acting as a violent eme to-cathartic, and has long been in use in medicine.