Twenty Two Years And Counting.
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23a 5,5 , another name for antirrhinum or snapdragon, i've got F?O?-MOUTH, ( if falstaffian is right for like shakespearean charecter ,11), can't find in any dictionary or net. Must be 'local' of' yokel' name, -- fools mouth, frogs mouth ????? Last one and it's bugging me, any help appreciated,
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From - http://www.botanical..../mgmh/t/toadfl19.html
"...'Linaria being a kind of Antyrrhinum, hath small, slender, blackish stalks, from which do grow many long, narrow leaves like flax. The floures be yellow with a spurre hanging at the same like unto a Larkesspurre, having a mouth like unto a frog's mouth, even such as is to be seene in the common Snapdragon..."
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"...'Linaria being a kind of Antyrrhinum, hath small, slender, blackish stalks, from which do grow many long, narrow leaves like flax. The floures be yellow with a spurre hanging at the same like unto a Larkesspurre, having a mouth like unto a frog's mouth, even such as is to be seene in the common Snapdragon..."
Chambers gives the definition, but no etymology...
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