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There was a garden behind my house, but it was mostly plants that flourished of their own accord: wisteria and honeysuckle, clover and scorpion grass.

Scorpion grass, our familiar forget-me-not of the genus myosotis, was so-called because its spike resembled a scorpion's tail and was, therefore, good against the scorpion's sting, or against pains similar to that produced by such a sting.

The root of the deceitful scallion, and the root of the mint, and scorpion grass,68 and the bulbs of the milk-flower, and the spikenard, and a kind of dye-stuff, the dye-plant, and the wormwood,—to them the laws of the Sabbatical year apply, and to their price the laws of the Sabbatical year apply.

Then the scorpion grass, of both kinds, proclaimed that it was summer; and borage was bright in the sitting-room.

The mistletoe branch is forked, like a wish-bone, 47 and so is the stem which bears the forget-me-not or wild scorpion grass.