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Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. Benjamin Jowett		Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
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	E. A. Bowles
	My Garden in Spring, 1914 Speaking about the Dracunculus vulgaris, syn. Arum Dracunculus (Dragon Arum).

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... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his motherinlaw ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

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