Brewer's: Agrimony

The older spelling was Argemony, and Pliny calls it argemonia, from the Greek argemos, a white speck on the eye, which this plant was supposed to cure.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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