Bugbane, or BUGWORT (Cimicifuga), a fetid genus of Ranunculaceæ, allied to Baneberry (Actaea), of which both the European and American species are said to drive away insects.
Bugbane
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 527
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