Word: monkshood
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...over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...
...dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles are now filled with one or another of the long line of new "wonder drugs": the sulfas, the antibiotics, the hormones...
...Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants...
...luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles and wild parsnip; over burial sites elderberries were common. One site at Uyak Ray was covered every year with handsome forget-me-nots, the only ones found in the region. Monkshood and fireweed were other prominent indicators of sites...
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