Culpeper's complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all British and foreign herbs; with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: [1900?]

Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all British and foreign herbs; with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$WILLOW-HEEB (ROSE-BAY.)—(^?i^o6iMm Angv^tifoliwn.) Descrip.—This is the most beautiful of all the Willow- Herbs. The root is large aud spreading. The first leaves rise in a thick tuft, aud are loug, narrow, deep green on the upper side, and silvery grey underneath; they have no footstalks, are eveu at the edges, aud terminate in a point. The stalk rises in the centre of the leaves : it is thick, firm, uprio-ht, and five feet high. The leaves stand irregularly upon it; they are long, narrow, even at the edges, of a deep green on the upper side, and a silvery white below. The flowers are large and beautiful, in a long spike, deep red. The seed-vessels are long, and the seeds winged with down. Place—It is found in damp meadows in Yorkshire. Time.—It flowers in June and July. WILLOW-HEEB (MOUNTAIN,)—(£^i?o6m?» Montanum.) Descrip—Tais is thicker set with leaves, and more ro- bust than the former. It grows upright; the stalk is round, reddish, aud four feet high. It is thick set with leaves,_of a pale greyish green, soft to the touch, oblong, broad, in- dented, they stand irregularly on the base of the stalk. The flowers are large, of a ])ale red, on the tops of the stalks. The seed grows in a pod with a silvery down amongst it. Place.—It is common in pasture grounds, and shady hedf^es, in our northern aud western counties. Time.—It flowers in June. WILLOW-HERB (SPURGE.)—C^i5t7oiiwm Tetra- gonum.) Descrip.—This has a singular appearance. The stem is filender, and upright : the leaves narrow, smooth at the edfes, long, and pointed; they are numerous, soft, and of a deep green. The flowers are moderately large, and grow at the tops of the branches ; of a beautiful bright red. Place.—It is frequent in damp meadows under hedges, and by the sides of brooks. Time.—It flowers in J uly. WILLOW-HERB I^VYTY.)—{Lysimachia Thrysiflora.) Descrip.—This rises from a long, thick, and fibrous root. The stalk is round, firm, upright, aud two feet high. The$