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1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. v. 89 A third cure [for the bite of a mad dog]... Take the hearb which groweth in dry and barren hils, called The Starre of the earth.

1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2266 The Star of the Earth, (so call'd,) in a famous Receipt against the biting of Mad-Dogs, he [sc. S. Dale] proves to be the Coronopus, and not the Sesamoides Salamanticum Magnum, which some mistake it for.

1736 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 39 360 Sir Robert Moray mentioned that a whole Kennel of Dogs, belonging to his Royal Highness, were bitten by a mad Dog, and had been lately cured by a certain Herb called Stellaria, or Star of the Earth.

1741 T. Steward in Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 458 In Norfolk, my native County,..the Coronopus is called the Star of the Earth.

1849 R. Buxton Bot. Guide Flowering Plants Manch. 70 The yellow Avens, though rare in Scotland, is so frequent in rural places in England as to have obtained many familiar names. It is called herb Bennet, star of the earth, goldy flower, and its oldest name was blessed herb.

1864 West of Scotl. Hort. Mag. Oct. 136 I found, occupying the same ground that it did half a dozen years ago, Senebiera Coronopus (Star of the Earth).

1991 B. S. Middleditch & A. M. Amer Kuwaiti Plants 63 Plantago coronopus..Buck's horn plantain, Star of the Earth.