0 a plant with groups of small purple flowers. There are several species (= types) of figwort and some have been used in the treatment of certain diseases and conditions. --
Since the recommended dose (a teaspoonful) contains, if the formula be correct, only about 4 grains of figwort, this drug too may be regarded as practically inert in this preparation.
Nearly all members of the figwort family have only four stamens, but the pentstemons have five; however, the fifth stamen does not bear a pollen-sac and is often bearded.
Many other figworts are found in the state.
The figwort matures its stigma at the lip of the style before its anthers have ripened their pollen.
The figwort family has many and curious representatives.
They lay eggs, one in a place, upon the leaves of plantain, figwort, gerardia, and related plants generally near the tip of the leaves.
Fanning the air with gauzy wings, the honey bee comes for a feast on the flowers of the figwort.
The mother butterflies select as food plants for the larvae various members of either the plantain or figwort families.
