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Bugloss

noun
(pl. buglosses)
1.
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.  Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis.
2.
Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States.  Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides.



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"Bugloss" Quotes from Famous Books



... equally repellent to serpents, and the juice of dittany "drives away venomous beasts, and doth astonish them." In olden times, for serpent bites, agrimony, chamomile, and the fruit of the bramble, were held efficacious, and Gerarde recommends the root of the bugloss, "as it keepeth such from being stung as have drunk it before; the leaves and seeds do the same." On the other hand, some plants had the reputation of attracting serpents, one of these being the moneywort or creeping loosestrife, ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer



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