toad-flax

-- The name "toad-flax" is evidently put by mistake, in Owen's _Dictionary_, for "toad-stool," a fungus, the

Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Various

But aloft, where rich arras once hid the stone, and silver sconces held the torch, Nature now sets her hand, brings spleenwort and harts-tongue, trails the ivy, the speedwell, and the toad-flax ....

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Wood sorrel nestled in the grassy corners near the crude rail fences, daisies and spiked toad-flax grew lavishly among the weeds of the roadside.

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

When breakfast was over they went out into the grassy space round which the ruined walls of the castle rose up so grey and stately, with the wallflowers and toad-flax growing out of them, and sat down among the round-faced, white-frilled daisies and told each other what they had thought, or what they thought they had thought, while they were back in those times when people were afraid of Boney.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

Beside the Plymouth road, as it plunges down-hill past Ruan Lanihale church towards Ruan Cove, and ten paces beyond the lych-gate -- where the graves lie level with the coping, and the horseman can decipher their inscriptions in passing, at the risk of a twisted neck -- the base of the churchyard wall is pierced with a low archway, festooned with toad-flax and fringed with the hart's-tongue fern.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Here I might refer to the observations concerning the invisible dimorphous state of the flowers of the normal toad-flax.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

The peloric toad-flax is only the prototype of what may be expected in other cases.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

The ground for this choice lies simply in the fact that the peloric toad-flax is known to have originated from the ordinary type at different times and in different countries, under more or less divergent conditions.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

The peloric toad-flax is nothing new; the [493] experiment was only a repetition of what presumably takes place often within the same species.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

It is the origin of the peloric toad-flax (_Linaria vulgaris peloria_).

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891