Materia Medica

A Concordance of Names

The old books call one plant by a dozen names. Here are all 1,569 names in the database, in English, in the botanists’ Latin, in the Greek of Dioscorides, the Arabic of Avicenna, the Hebrew of Scripture, and the Italian of Canale’s apothecary, each pointing to its entry.

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Botanical names follow Plants of the World Online. Names marked “Canale, 1614” are those used in the Italian of Canale’s text. Greek and Arabic are given in transliteration.