"Scrophularia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indica! Vinca minor. Atropa Belladonna. *Solanum Lycopersicum! *Petunia violacea! Galeopsis ochroleuca. Betonica alopecuros. *Digitalis purpurea! *Antirrhinum majus! *Linaria purpurea! *Pedicularis sylvatica! *Calceolaria var. hort.! Scrophularia nodosa. Salpiglossis straminea. Streptocarpus Rexii. *Gesnera var. hort.! AEschynanthus sp.! Thyrsacanthus rutilans! Anagallis collina. *Primula veris! Auricula. *Primula acaulis, var. umbellata! elatior? * sinensis! Aristolochia Clematitis. ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... In accordance with the mediaeval "doctrine of signatures," it was maintained "that the hard, stony seeds of the Gromwell must be good for gravel, and the knotty tubers of scrophularia for scrofulous glands; while the scaly pappus of scaliosa showed it to be a specific in leprous diseases, the spotted leaves of pulmonaria that it was a sovereign remedy for tuberculous lungs, and the growth of saxifrage in the fissures of rocks that it would disintegrate stone in the ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske |
