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and-egg flower." Here is the Saxifraga crassifolia, 

 with its huge broad leaves and its thick spikes of 

 pink bell-blossom. It is almost too coarse grow- 

 ing, however, for the border, and does better on a 

 rude rockery, or rather "loggery," which I have 

 elsewhere. 



Here is the Pulmonaria or Lungwort, with its 

 varied bloom of red and blue, and with the white 

 markings on its leaves, which were supposed to 

 look like lungs, and from which it takes its name. 

 This Pulmonaria is one of the large class of plants, 

 which, it was believed, had a healing power, and 

 indicated that healing power by the form of leaf, or 

 root, or blossom. These herbs of grace and it is 

 doubtful whether any plant would be entirely 

 excepted bore about with them, plain for all to 

 see, outward and visible signs of their secret and 

 subtle virtue. Thus the Liverwort (Hepatica) had 

 the shape of a liver in its leaves, the Eyebright 

 (Euphrasia) looked up to you with : an eye like 

 your own and each had potency of healing for 

 that part of the human body, of which the image 

 was expressed in its own frail form. 



Farther on are close green tufts of the Corydalis, 

 with its delicate lilac flowers. Then come bushes 

 of Wallflower of the richest red-brown colour a 



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