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Gall of the earth   /gɔl əv ðə ərθ/   Listen
Gall of the earth

noun
1.
Common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes.  Synonyms: lion's foot, Nabalus serpentarius, Prenanthes serpentaria.






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... measure the restorative antiseptic virtues of the Field Gentian and the Buckbean. There are four wild varieties of the Centaury, square stemmed, and each bearing flat tufts of flowers which are more or less rose coloured. The ancients named this bitter plant the Gall of the Earth, and it is now known ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie



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