✻ Long Grimoire · Botanical Plate ✻
Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
Northern Spit, slate cliff top, moss-bound coast, Aldermere · Blossom-Moon waning
⟡ Charm: Heart-strengthener · Fever-breaker
Single flowering spike, collected at the cliff edge. Unusually deep purple — almost black at the throat. Left the rest of the stand to seed. Pressed under atlas for three days. Corollas shrank slightly in pressing but held form. A variant preparation using black juice is reported from the eastern villages — see Chapter IV notes for comparison.
Coll. Vesper · det. Ditch (sniffed twice, sneezed, then approved)