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dead men's bells
A local name in Scotland for the Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea; also dead man's bells.
1818Edin. Mag. Oct. 328/1 But dinnae pu' the dead men's bells. 1848W. Gardiner Flora Forfarshire 139 It is known to the peasantry by the name of ‘dead men's bells’. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. 157. 1878 Britten & Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-Names 34 Bell, or Bells, Dead Man's, or Men's. 1960Ary & Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 122/2 Other names for this common plant..are Dead Man's Bells (the plant is poisonous) and Fairy Thimbles. |