Bog Asphodel (Nartheceum ossifragum), a pretty lilaceous herb, with a characteristic raceme of small golden-yellow star-like flowers, common in early autumn on boggy mountain-sides in northern temperate regions.
Bog Asphodel
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 263
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