| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| HOLLYHOCK | Tall plant | |
| SUNFLOWER | Tall plant | |
| REED | Tall plant | |
| RUSH | Tall plant | |
| TREE | Tall plant | |
| BAMBOO | Tall stiff-stemmed plant | |
| FOXGLOVE | Tall plant with erect spikes | |
| NARTHEX | A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel. | |
| MASTERWORT | A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria). | |
| AARON'S ROD | A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod. | |
| JOE-PYE WEED | A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves. | |
| SOUARI NUT | The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut. | |
| MULLEIN | Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus. | |
| PAPYRUS | A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick. | |