[f. as prec. + WORT: see quot. 1597.] Name for the Nettle-leaved Bell-flower, Campanula Trachelium; also extended to other species, as C. glomerata, latifolia, and Cervicaria; also locally applied to the Foxglove, Figwort (Scrophularia nodosa), and American Button Snake-root (Liatris spicata).
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xx. 170. This Throtewurte or Haskwurte … is … of three sortes,… the great and the small, and the creeping kinde.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cx. 363. The thirde sort of Canterburie Bels, called likewise Throtewoorte, of his vertue in curing the diseases of the throte.
1766. Museum Rust., VI. 446. Lesser Throatwort, or Canterbury Bells.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, III. viii. Where … throatwort with its azure bell, And moss and thyme his cushion swell. Note. The Campanula latifolia, Grand [? error for Giant] Throatwort, or Canterbury Bells, grows in profusion upon the beautiful banks of the river Greta.
