Note to Hamlet, 4.7.170: "a grosser name"


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The Latin name of this plant, Orchis mascula, means "virile orchid" because its double bulbs look like testicles. As the queen says, they were called "long purples" in England, but I haven't been able to find what the "grosser name" was.


Orchis mascula L.