Along with mandrake juice, an extract of this plant is drunk by Barabas in order to escape from prison in The Jew of Malta, and Harry gives Larry Shannon a tea made from it in The Night of the Iguana.
One poem about these items calls them "little bloody skirts" and "little hell flames" and ends "colorless, colorless." Along with mandrake juice, an extract of this plant is drunk by Barabas in order to escape from prison in The Jew of Malta, and Harry gives Larry Shannon a tea made from it in The Night of the Iguana. In addition to a Sylvia Plath poem about these "in July," the crown of the King of Dullness is made of these in the Dunciad, satirizing Thomas Shadwell's addiction to a product of them, and they are described as moving "between the crosses row on row" in John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields. For 10 points, name these flowers, which a bunch of mice carry the central party out of a field of in The Wizard of Oz.
One poem about these items calls them "little bloody skirts" and "little hell flames" and ends "colorless, colorless."
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