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She picks blue centauries, scarlet poppies, cuckoo-flowers, and buttercups, which she also knows as little chicks.

From Child Life In Town And Country 1909 by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

I find both sexes wassailing on the flowers, especially the Compositae, the centauries and thistles.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

After dinner we went out and sat together upon the bank of the noisy river; we sat in a meadow overgrown with centauries and sweet marjoram, recognizable in the darkness because of their penetrating odor.

From The Story of a Child by Smith, Caroline F.

Next, in respect of number, come the centauries, grim looking one and all, bristling with prickles or starry halberds.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

I see the first males appear in the middle of September, on the centauries.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander