The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down,
And still fluttered down the snow.
—Lowell.
LICORICE.
(Glycyrrhiza glabra L.)
DR. ALBERT SCHNEIDER,
Northwestern University School of Pharmacy.
But first he cheweth greyn and licorys
To smellen sweete.
—Miller's Tale, l. 504; Chaucer.