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"Digitalis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... elegans. *Campanula medium! rapunculoides. thyrsoidea. Dipsacus pilosus. fullonum. silvestris. Knautia arvensis. Phyteuma orbiculare. Jasione montana. *Linaria purpurea! Antirrhinum majus! Veronica amethystea. Veronica maritima. sp. Russellia juncea! Digitalis purpurea! Ajuga pyramidalis. Hyssopus officinalis. Dracocephalum moldavicum. Myosotis scorpioides. Echium pyrenaicum. simplex. Stapeliae sp. Lysimachia vulgaris! Androsace maxima. Primula veris inflor.! denticulata inflor.! ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... spikes of elegant bell-shaped brilliant blossoms seen in our woods and hedges, is also called the Thimble Flower, or the Finger Flower, from the resemblance of these blossoms to a thimble or to the fingers of a glove. The word digitalis refers likewise to the digits, or fingers of a gauntlet. In France the title is Gants de Notre Dame, the gloves of our Lady the Virgin. Some writers give Folks' Glove, or Fairies' Glove as the proper English orthography, but this is wrong. Our name of the ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie |
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