Tem>The Folk-lore of Plants (1889) was meant, its preface says, as “a brief systematic summary” of a field then much worked in England and on the Continent: plant worship, plants in witchcraft and demonology, love-charms and dream-plants, the doctrine of signatures, and plants in folk-medicine. Read here in the Project Gutenberg text.
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- The amulet herbsSee each above.
- BorageBorago officinalis.
- Caper spurgeEuphorbia lathyris.
- CinquefoilPotentilla reptans.
- ColocynthThe dried pulp of Citrullus colocynthis.
- CuminCuminum cyminum.
- Cyclamen, greaterSowbread, Cyclamen purpurascens or C. hederifolium, eaten by pigs, hence the name.
- DillAnethum graveolens.
- DittanyDittany of Crete, Origanum dictamnus, famous in antiquity for drawing out arrows.
- EndiveCichorium endivia, the salad plant.
- FennelFoeniculum vulgare, seed and water.
- FigFicus carica.
- GalbanumGum resin of Ferula gummosa.
- HopHumulus lupulus.
- Mallow and marshmallowMalva sylvestris and Althaea officinalis.
- Masterwort and angelicaPeucedanum ostruthium and Angelica archangelica.
- Meadow saffronColchicum autumnale.
- Mustard seedThe English follows the 1674 text as “mustard”; the 1660 printing, whose Italian is given
- Olive oil and holy waterFine olive oil; water blessed by the Church.
- PurslanePortulaca oleracea, a succulent, creeping herb of warm gardens.
- RadishGarden radish, Raphanus sativus (now classed by Kew as Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativu
- SnailGarden snails, shelled and boiled, distilled, or eaten.
- SnapdragonAntirrhinum majus.
- Violet, lettuce, sow-thistleSweet violet (Viola odorata), garden lettuce (Lactuca sativa), sow-thistle (Sonchus olerac
- Water germanderTeucrium scordium, of the same genus as wall germander, which has caused liver failure in
- Wild rueEither the wild form of Ruta graveolens or Syrian rue, Peganum harmala.
