The "long purples" described in Hamlet are actually Orchis Mascula: There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in …

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The "long purples" described in Hamlet are actually Orchis Mascula: There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do “dead men’s fingers” call them. --Gertrude, "Hamlet," Act IV, Sc. VII

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