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the Lime at Lancaster, cares to come and walk on the 

 Coniston hills in a summer morning, when the eyebright 

 is out on the high fields, she may gather, with a little 

 help from Brantwood garden, a bouquet of the entire 

 Foxglove tribe in flower, as it is at present defined, and 

 may see what they are like, altogether. 



4. She shall gather : first, the Euphrasy, which makes 

 the turf on the brow of the hill glitter as if with new- 

 fallen manna ; then, from one of the blue clusters on the 

 top of the garden wall, the common bright blue Speed- 

 well ; and, from the garden bed beneath, a dark blue 

 spire of Veronica spicata ; then, at the nearest opening 

 into the wood, a little foxglove in its first delight of 

 shaking out its bells ; then what next does the Doctor 



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say? a snapdragon? we must go back into the garden 

 for that here is a goodly crimson one, but what the 

 little speedwell will think of him for a relative I can't 

 think! a mullein? that we must do without for the 

 moment ; a monkey flower ? that we will do without, 

 altogether ; a lady's slipper ? say rather a goblin's with 

 the gout ! but, such as the flower-cobbler has made it, 

 here is one of the kind that people praise, out of the 

 greenhouse, and yet a figwort we must have, too ; 

 which I see on referring to London, may be balm-leaved, 

 hemp-leaved, tansy -leaved, nettle-leaved, wing-leaved, 

 heart-leaved, ear-leaved, spear-leaved, or lyre-leaved. I 

 think I can find a balm-leaved one, though I don't know 

 what to make of it when I've got it, but it's called a 



