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the flower-heads for the purpose of thus extracting the 

 sweetness from them; and in the district where we write 

 the white dead nettle too is called a " honey-suck." 



Culpeper, in his " Herbal/'' speaks of the meadow clover as 

 " so well known, especially by the name of honeysuckles, 

 that I need not describe it." A clover field in full blossom 

 is not only a beautiful sight, while filling the balmy air of 

 summer with the fragrance of its countless blossoms, but it 

 is a scene of unwearying industry and rapturous enjoyment, 

 as the bees by thousands are rifling its sweets, and the 

 butterflies, more numerous there than anywhere else, sip 

 the nectar from the tubular flowers. Many a " clouded 

 yellow " in our younger days have we ardently pursued as 

 it danced over the purple sea of blossom. 



" The leaues boiled with a little barrowes grease, and vsed 

 as a pultis, take away hot swellings and inflammation. 

 Pliny writeth, and setteth it downe for certaine, that the 

 leaues hereof do tremble, and stand right up against the 

 comming of a storme or tempest." 



