Table of Contents
Introduction 11
Aconitum 13
Adder's tongue 13
Agrimony 14
Water-agrimony 14
Black alder-tree 16
Common alder-tree 17
Ale-hoof 17
Alexander 18
Alheal 18
Alkanet 19
Almond-tree 20
Aloe 20
Amara-dulcis 21
Amaranthus 21
Anemone 22
Angelica 22
Archangel 23
Garden arrach 24
Arrach, wild and stinking 24
Arsesmart 25
Artichoke 26
Asarabacca 26
Ash-tree 27
Asparagus 27
Prickly asparagus 27
Avens 28
Balsam-tree 29
Barberry 30
Barley 30
Garden, or sweet basil 31
Bawm 31
Bay-tree 32
Beans 33
French-beans 33
Lady's bed-straw 34
Beech-tree 35
Beets 35
Water-betony 36
Wood-betony 36
Bilberries 37
Birch-tree 38
Bird's foot 39
Bishop's weed 39
Bistort 40
Black bindweed 40
Black-thorn 41
Blight 41
Blue-bottle 42
Borage and bugloss 43
Bramble 43
Brank-ursine 44
Briony 44
Brooklime 45
Broom and broom-rape 47
Buckshorn 48
Buckshorn plantain 48
Buck-wheat 49
Bugle 50
Burdock 50
Burnet 51
Butcher's broom 52
Butter-bur 52
Byfoil 54
Cabbages and coleworts 54
Sea-colewort 55
Calamint 55
Water-caltrops 56
Camomile 56
Wild campions 57
Carduus benedictus 58
Carob-tree 58
Carraway 59
Carrot 59
Cassia-fistula 60
Cedar-tree 60
Celandine 63
Smaller celandine 63
Ordinary smaller centaury 64
Cherry-tree 65
Winter cherries 65
Chervil 67
Sweet chervil 67
Chestnut-tree 68
Earth chestnuts 68
Chich pease 69
Chickweed 69
Cinquefoil 70
Cistus 71
Cives 72
Clary 72
Wild clary 73
Cleavers 73
Clown's woundwort 74
Cockle 74
Cock's head 75
Cocoa-nut tree 75
Coffee 77
Coloquintida 78
Coltsfoot 78
Columbines 79
Comfrey 79
Coral 81
Coral-wort 81
Coriander 82
Cornel-tree 83
Costmary 83
Cowslips 83
Crab's claws 84
Black cresses 84
Sciatica cresses 85
Water-cresses 85
Cross-wort 86
Crowfoot 87
Cubebs 87
Cuckow-point 87
Cucumbers 88
Cudweed 89
Red, white, and black currants 89
Cypress-tree 90
White daffodil 91
Yellow daffodil 92
Daisies 93
Dandelion 93
Darnel 94
Date-tree 94
Devil's bit 95
Dictamnum of candy 96
False dictamnum 96
Dill 97
Dock 98
Dodder of thyme 98
Dog's grass 99
Double-tongue 99
Dove's foot 100
Down 100
Dragons 101
Duck's meat 101
Dunch-down 101
Dwarf plane-tree 102
Eglantine 102
Elder-tree 102
Dwarf-elder 104
Elecampane 104
Elm-tree 105
Endive 105
Eringo 107
Erysimum 107
Euphorbium 108
Eye-bright 108
Featherfew 109
Fennel 109
Sow-fennel 110
Fenugreek 110
Fern 111
Water-fern 111
Fig-tree 112
Fig-wort 112
Filapendula 113
Fir-tree 114
Fistic-nuts 114
Flax 116
Flax-weed 116
Fleabane 117
Fleawort 117
Flixweed 118
Flower-de-luce 119
Fluellin 119
Foxglove 120
Fumitory 121
Furze-bush 121
Galingal 122
Gall-oak 122
Garlic 123
Gentian 124
Germander 125
Clove gilliflowers 125
Stock gilliflowers 126
Wall, or yellow gilliflowers 126
Stinking gladwin 127
Golden rod 128
Gooseberry-bush 129
Gout-herb 129
Winter-green 130
Gromel 130
Groundsel 131
Hart's tongue 132
Hawk-weed 132
Hawthorn 133
Hasel-nut 134
Heart's ease 134
Hedge-hyssop 134
Black hellebore 135
Hemlock 136
Hemp 137
Hen-bane 137
Herb Robert 138
Herb truelove 138
Hoarhound 139
Holly 140
Honey-wort 140
Hops 141
Horse-tail 141
Hound's tongue 142
Houseleek 143
Hyssop 144
Indian leaf 144
Ivy 145
St John's wort 145
Jujube-tree 146
Juniper-bush 148
Kali 149
Kidney-wort 150
Knap-weed 151
Knot-grass 151
Ladies' mantle 152
Ladies' smock 153
Larch-tree, and its agaric 153
Lavender 154
Lavender cotton 154
Lemon-tree 155
Lentiles 156
Lettuce 157
Lily of the valley 157
Water-lily 159
White lilies 159
Line, or linden-tree 160
Liquorice 161
Liver-wort 161
Loose-strife 162
Loose-strife, with spiked heads of flowers 162
Lovage 163
Love-apple 164
Lung-flower 165
Lung-wort 166
Lupines 166
Madder 167
Mad-wort 168
Maiden-hair 168
Ordinary white maiden-hair 168
Golden maiden-hair 169
Mallows and marsh-mallows 169
Mandrake 171
Maple-tree 172
Marigolds 172
Sweet marjoram 172
Wild marjoram 173
Master-wort 173
Mastic-tree 175
Sweet maudlin 176
May-weed 176
Mealy-tree 177
Medlar 178
Melilot 179
Dog's mercury 179
French mercury 180
Mint 181
Mistletoe 182
Money-wort 183
Moon-wort 184
Moss 185
Mother-wort 185
Mouse-ear 186
Mugwort 188
Mulberry-tree 189
Mullein 189
Mushroom 190
Mustard 191
Hedge-mustard 191
Nailwort 192
Navel-wort 193
Nep 193
Nettles 194
Nightshade 194
Deadly nightshade 195
Woody nightshade 195
Nipplewort 196
Nutmeg-tree, and mace 196
Oak 197
Oats 197
Olive-tree 198
One-blade 200
Onions 200
Orange-tree 201
Orchis 202
Orpine 203
Parsley 203
Parsley-pert 204
Parsnip 205
Cow-parsnip 205
Peach-tree 206
Pear-tree 206
Pellitory of Spain 208
Pellitory of the wall 209
Penny-royal 210
Peony 210
Pepper 211
Pepper-wort 213
Periwinkle 214
St Peter's wort 214
Pimpernel 215
Ground-pine 216
Pitch and tar 216
Pitch-tree 217
Plantain 218
Plums 218
Polypody of the oak 219
Pomecitron-tree 220
Pomegranate-tree 221
Poplar-tree 222
Poppy 224
Primroses 226
Privet 226
Purslain 227
Queen of the meadows 227
Quick-grass 228
Quince-tree 230
Radish, and horse-radish 231
Ragwort 231
Rattle-grass 232
Sweet, or aromatical reed 233
Rest-harrow 235
Rhubarb 236
Monk's rhubarb 237
Bastard rhubarb 237
Rice 239
Rocket 240
Winter rocket 240
Rosa soils 242
Rosemary 242
Roses 243
Garden rue 246
Meadow rue 246
Rupture-wort 247
Rushes 247
Rye 248
Saffron 248
Sage 248
Wood-sage 249
Samphire 249
Sanicle 250
Saracens consound 250
Sarsaparilla 252
Sauce-alone 254
Saunders 254
Savin 255
Winter and summer savoury 255
Burnet-saxifrage 256
Common white-saxifrage 256
Scabious 257
Scammony 258
Scurvy-grass 260
Sebesten 261
Wild sebesten 261
Self-heal 262
Sena 262
Service-tree 263
Shepherd's purse 263
Smallage 263
Solomon's seal 264
Sope-wort 264
Sorrel 265
Wood-sorrel 265
Southernwood 266
Sow-thistles 268
Spignel 268
Spikenard 269
Spleen-wort 269
Star-thistle 269
Stonecrop 271
Storax-tree 271
Strawberries 272
Succory 274
Swallow-wort 274
Sycamore-tree 275
Tamarisk-tree 276
Garden tansey 276
Wild tansey 277
Thistles 277
Fullers thistle 278
Melancholy thistle 278
Our Lady's thistle 280
Woolly, or cotton thistle 280
Thorough-wax 281
Thyme 282
Wild thyme 282
Tobacco 282
Tormentil 283
Treacle-mustard 283
Heart-trefoil 285
Meadow-trefoil 285
Pearl-trefoil 285
Turnsol 286
Tutsan 286
Garden valerian 287
Vervain 288
Vine 288
Violets 288
Viper's bugloss 289
Wall-flowers 289
Walnut-tree 290
Wheat 293
Willow-tree 293
Woad 293
Wold, weld, or dyers weed 294
Wolf-bane 294
Woodbine 295
Wormwood 295
Yarrow 295
Yucca 296
Of the gathering, drying and preserving of plants, herbs, and flowers 298
Index 301