[Footnote 524: Prunella. A widely scattered plant, called self-heal, b… — Essays

Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Footnote 524: Prunella. A widely scattered plant, called self-heal, because a decoction of its leaves and stems was, and to some extent is, valued as an application to wounds. An editor comments on the fact that during the last years of Emerson's life "the little blue self-heal crept into the grass before his study window."]

Place: ¶1034
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