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Dillitalis JJUrjJUrca. Xatlhal Okder: Scrofhulariacea — F'igu-ort Family. 



ITERALLY, the purple finger-flower, this plant is of easy 

 culture, and well adapted for the borders of walks and beds. 

 The blossoms, which grow in a long spike, are man}^, and 

 •q.:,]^ thimble-shaped, with dots of a color differing from the flower 

 in the interior. The whole plant is a violent and dangerous 

 '" ^ poison when taken internally in anj' considerable quantity, 

 producing delirium, convulsions and death. It becomes a valuable 

 medicine in the hands of a skillful physician. It thrives best in par- 

 tially shaded locations. There are a number of varieties, the flowers 

 ^ being white, purple, carmine, brown, and yellow. 



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"HIS poor brain! ten thousand shapes of fury 

 Are wliirHnt; there, and reason is no more. 



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; E raves, his words are loose 

 As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense ; 

 So high he 's mounted on his airy throne, 

 Tliat now the wind has got into his head, 

 .\nd turns liis brains to phrenzy. —Dryden. 



His I 

 And 

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n is wrecked — 



.er in the pauses of his speech 

 p doth work with inward muttering 

 his fixed eve is riveted fearfullv 



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that 



other sight can sp 



AM not mad: too well, too well I feel 

 The different plague of each calamity. 



1 AM not mad; 

 ' For then 'tis li 



vould to heaven I w( 

 I should forget mysi 

 O, if I could, what grief shonld I forget! 



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;tched brain gave 

 became a wreck, f 



Without one glimpse of reason or of hea^■ 



TF a phrenzy do possess the brain, 



It so disturbs and blots the form of things. 



As fantasy proves altogether vain. 



And to the wit no true relation brings. 



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