cuckoo-flowers
KING LEAR, iv. 4. 4.
“Cuckoo flowers (Lychnis
Flos-cuculi), ragged robin, a well-known meadow and marsh plant, with rose-coloured
flowers and deeplycut narrow segments; it blossoms at the time the cuckoo comes, hence one
of its names.”
Beisly's Shakspere's Garden,
p. 143.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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