The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . 3 ,^N?. —Dipsacus Fullunum. the blossoms have fallen off, for the beauty and 250 TEASEL. regularity of its structure. This receptacle is set?with awns, at the end of which are this plant may be familiarly known toyou by the name of devils broom, which it isoften called by the country people; its chaffyhead covered with the long awns rendering it notunlike a broom in appearance. In some villages,whose distance from towns has prevented the cot-tagers from receiving
The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . 3 ,^N?. —Dipsacus Fullunum. the blossoms have fallen off, for the beauty and 250 TEASEL. regularity of its structure. This receptacle is set?with awns, at the end of which are this plant may be familiarly known toyou by the name of devils broom, which it isoften called by the country people; its chaffyhead covered with the long awns rendering it notunlike a broom in appearance. In some villages,whose distance from towns has prevented the cot-tagers from receiving much instruction, the super-stitious people attach a high value to this plant,from its supposed virtue in removing the cutting open lengthwise the head of theteasel, you will find enclosed in it a worm, wellknown to naturalists as the solitary country-people collect several of these worms,always taking care to have an odd number ofthem, as five or seven. They then place them ina quill and hang them around the patients remote from towns are often con-sidered pecu
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