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UTTER-CUP. . Class 13,. Order:. This plant contains many virulent qualities, which are said to affect cattle, especially sheep, and particularly the root, which has the property of inflaming and blistering the skin. Shakspeare mentions it as the cuckoo-flower in King Lear,—

And Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, alludes to its ungrateful qualities in some lines on the “Eternity of Nature:” detailing his morning’s walk, he says,