And this brings us to another curious question: the sudden and abundant appearance of plants, like the foxglove and Epilobium angustifolium, in spots where they have never been seen before.
Foxglove and columbine, honeysuckle, lilies and roses would bloom, but David would see them no more!
The foxglove shoots out of the green matted heather, And hangeth her hoods of snow; She was idle, and slept till the sunshiny weather: O, children take long to grow.
I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.
The common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) has likewise occasionally been observed subject to a similar malformation.
Cases of this kind, wherein the flowers of a pea and of the foxglove were replaced by collections of small ovate green scales packed one over the other till they resembled the strobile of a hop, have been already alluded to.
Four ounces of the fresh leaves of the foxglove should be boiled from two pounds of water to one, and half an ounce of the decoction taken every two hours for four or more doses.
The decoction offoxglove should also be mentioned here, as great effusions of urine frequently follow its exhibition.
The leaves of Foxglove have a nauseous taste, but no remarkable smell.
Ramuntcho has never seen his little friend made so pink by the sun: on her cheeks, there is the beautiful, red blood which flushes the skin, the fine and transparent skin; she is pink as the foxglove flowers.
And they also, the two who are passing through these paths of foxglove and of fern, participate in this splendor of spring.
The foxglove flowers start everywhere like long, pink rockets above the light and infinite mass of ferns.
The Shefro, or gregarious fairy, is represented as wearing the corona of the foxglove on his head, and no unbecoming head-dress either.
The band, the members of which were perched in the swinging flowers of a foxglove close by, played lustily during the feast.
He writes of 'the fays That sweetly nestle in the foxglove bells;' and adds in a note, 'popular fancy has generally conceived a connection between the foxglove and the good people.
Foxglove (dried and reduced to a coarse powder), 1 dr.
The juice of foxglove is very readily injured by exposure to air and heat.
The foxglove shoots out of the green matted heather, And hangeth her hoods of snow; She was idle, and slept till the sunshiny weather: Oh, children take long to grow!
I wish and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.
They are very fond of the seeds of nettles, and the seeds of the foxglove poison them.
Turkeys are particularly fond of the seeds of nettles, whilst the seeds of the foxglove will poison them.
We were a month too late for the season of flowers, but the foxglove and the bright pink Epilobium still bloomed in great luxuriance.
The dark-leaved henbane is in brilliant yellow flower, and the purple foxglove in striking contrast; but the wealth of summer flowers is over.
Just one example: Last summer, in my woodland study, I noticed one large bee enter a crimson foxglove bell.
From among the brackens that grow beneath, so rank and green, rich crimson foxglove bells are peeping, and a thousand other flowers make this wild bank a thing of beauty.
The stately foxglove springs from a dust grain, and fading holds aloft a seed spike of prolific invention; the lupin has stout, podded, countable seeds that must of necessity fall to the ground by force of weight.
The table and house decorations the day that we arrived were of thistles blended with the deep yellow blossoms of the downy false foxglove or Gerardia and the yellow false indigo that looks at a short distance like a dwarf bush pea.
And though it still sends up its flowers as bravely as it knows how, they are only a foot high, not the five and six feet of the foxglove in the shelter.
From out her hidden stores of abundance, Nature has given moisture to the grass, refreshment to the fainting foxglove leaves, and damped the forest fern.
I passed the autumn of 1857 in North Wales, where the foxglove was very abundant, and watched the flowers throughout the season, but only once saw a small bee reach the nectary, though many were seen trying in vain to do so.
The four stamens and the pistil of the foxglove are laid closely against the upper side of the flower.
The racemes of purple bells held up by thefoxglove are methodically visited by it, commencing at the bottom flower, and ascending step by step to the highest.
Digitalis--Foxglove The form usually grown is treated as a biennial, and with me, must be coldframed the first year.
Arthur pulled off some blossoms from a droopingfoxglove stem and crushed them nervously in his hand.
Or a foxglove lifts its purple spire; or woodbine crowns the bushes.
In districts where the soil is favourable to the foxglove it would not have been noticed, but here, alone and unexpected, it was welcomed.
A foxglove lifts her bells and bells silent above the singing grass, Still the old marigold her light sprinkles like riches to the poor.
The caterpillar lives in the flowers of the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and feeds therein upon the stamens and the immature seeds.
The moth is out in May and June, and is found in almost every part of the British Isles where the foxglove is common.
To begin with, Foxglove Manor is miles away from any other habitation; and no one ever comes near the "uncanny" place, except on special business.
Santley turned, and saw, standing close to him, the master of Foxglove Manor.
Santley was not a strong man, and just then he seemed positively helpless; nor would he at any time have been a match for the square-built, broad-shouldered master of Foxglove Manor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foxglove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
