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“But it is not the bee alone that braves this powerful 
poison ; women of the poorer class, in Derbyshire, drink 
large draughts of Fox-glove tea, as a cheap means of ob- 
taining the pleasures, or forgetfulness, of intoxication. It 
is said to produce a great exhilaration of spirits. Well 
may the word intoxicate originate in poison.” 
lt is a native of England, Germany, and other parts of 
Europe. 
DODECATHEON.—American Cowsir. 
(A fanciful name, signifying the twelve gods or divinities.] 
Dodecétheon Meadia.— American Cowslip, Shooting 
Star.—A highly ornamental plant, displaying its flowers 
in May and June; throwing up stems a foot high, with a 
large, umbel-like cluster of singularly beautiful pale-pur- 
ple flowers. The petals are reflexed, or thrown back 
from the centre, like the Cyclamen. There is a variety 
with white flowers. Soon after flowering, the foliage dies 
down, and the plant is dormant during the summer, when 
it may be propagated by parting the roots, leaving a bud, 
or the rudiments of one, on the crown of each. It isa 
native of the West and South, and perfectly hardy. 
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DOLICHOS,—Hyacintn Bean. 
[A name under which Dioscorides describes a plant supposed to have been 
the kidney bean of the moderns,] 
Délichos Labla4b.— Purple Hyacinth Bean. — A fine 
tender annual climber, with flowers in clustered spikes; 
purple, with a white variety. It grows from ten to twen- 
ty feet in a season; treatment very much like that of the 
common bean. A native of Egypt. 
