Nine brother's blood

[Fet, Victor]

In Russian, "nine brothers" (devyat bratyev) is the old name for the
field or yellow hawkweed, in English also called King Devil (Hieracium
pratense), fam. Asteraceacae.

Ref.: V. I. Dahl.  1880-1882. The Interpretative Dictionary of the Live
Great Russian Language. Online: http://vidahl.agava.ru

"King Devil and other European hawkweeds were used as an herbal remedy
for healing eyesight.
Pliny reported, in ancient Greece, that hawks ate it to see better.",
http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/web/Species/pkingdevil.html

best wishes,


Victor Fet
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University,
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
phone (304) 696-3116, fax (304) 696-3243
http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/Fet.htm