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On their qualities -- as 'Scrophularia' from its (quite uncertified) use in scrofula.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Codonopsis pilosula, Acanthopanax senticosus, Rehmannia glutinosa, Ophiopogon japonis and Scrophularia ningpoensis, added to the Cola drinks.
Chapter 8 1991
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"Flowers of the most brilliant hues bedeck the rivers 'banks; above all, the _Lobelia cardinalis_ and _Lobelia syphilitica_, of the deepest carmine and cerulean tinge, the yellow _Cassia Marilandica_, and the delicate _Rosa blanda_, a rose without thorns; also the _Scrophularia nodosa_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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_Scrophularia_, &c., where one stamen is atrophied.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_H_, part of an inflorescence of figwort, _Scrophularia_ (_Scrophularineæ_), × 1.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_Scrophularia_, _Erodium_, many _Restiaceæ_, &c. &c. As a strictly teratological condition atrophy of the stamens is more rare than complete suppression.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In a specimen of _Scrophularia nodosa_ examined by me one of the lateral buds on each of the cymes was represented, not by a flower, but by a tuft of leaves, the other buds being unchanged.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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English Scrophularia were observed to-day at Julraiz.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_Mimulus_, etc., while a few like the figwort, _Scrophularia_
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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On the contrary terminal pelories of _Scrophularia nodosa_ are met with from time to time in Holland.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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