1. Synonyms for Augustest include grandest, stateliest, splendidest, greatest, proudest, loftiest, superbest, excellentest, kingliest and lordliest

2. It is a fine looking plant, as John Clare says: “A sentry of proud Betonies, The stateliest of small flowers on earth” Like

3. Neererhe drew, and many a walk travers'd Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen Among thick-wov'n Arborets and Flours Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of EVE: Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign'd Or of reviv'd ADONIS, or renownd ALCINOUS, host of old LAERTES Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire