MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 241 Barbour Moore MS IFC S 630: 39 Tongue Wright, 241 Taylor 1929 Perring Payne, 92 footn ...

242 Notes 87.North Western Naturalist, 18 (1944), 168 Hatfield MS Logan, 73 Hatfield MS CECTL MSS Tongue Shaw, 48, 49 Hatfield, ...

  Comfrey, Vervain and Mints 243 Duncan & Robson, 69 McNeill Swire, 76 Moore MS IFC S 795: 124 IFC S 386: 118 Lank ...

Fargher; Garrad 1984 IFC S 897: 81 269.Gardeners’ Chronicle (1871: I), 45, 106 Britten & Holland, 172 Gepp, 45 Johnston 185 ...

245 8 CHAPTER 13 Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Calli ...

246 Plantago coronopus to the bites of rabid dogs and resulting hydrophobia, under the name ‘star-of- the-earth’. Though the rec ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 247 Plantago lanceolata Linnaeus ribwort plantain, rib-grass,slánlus,St ...

the Inner^13 and Outer Hebrides,^14 Orkney^15 ). A reputation for also alleviat- ing pain has encouraged a use for all kinds of ...

dogs have been traced from Cornwall,^54 Devon,^55 Dorset,^56 ‘Wales’^57 and Gal- loway^58 —all areas where adders occur in parti ...

Ligustrum vulgare Linnaeus privet western, central and southern Europe, North Africa; introduced into North America, New Zealand ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 251 In so far as great mullein has had additional, minor uses, the recor ...

Scrophularia nodosa Linnaeus   common figwort, rose noble, brown(s)wort;fothrom(Irish) Europe, temperate western and cent ...

rubbed on the part of the body affected. Frustrating in a different way is the failure to specify in which part of Ireland the p ...

ing and induce sleep.^142 Though frequent to common over much of the Brit- ish Isles at least since the time of William Turner, ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 255 caused by drinking an infusion of the plant,^145 and it had a reputa ...

stemming from Withering’s work, a post-Withering acquisition from learned medicine seems more probable. The very scattered distr ...

Withering’s son, women ‘of the poorer class’ used to drink large amounts of foxglove tea as a cheap form of intoxication.^172 A ...

Ve ronica officinalis Linnaeus heath speedwell Europe, Asia Minor, Azores, Australia (?), eastern North America; introduced into ...

  Plantains, Figworts, Foxglove and Speedwells 259 ers for sore nipples is an assertion based merely on a translation o ...

260 Ve ronica beccabunga Ve ronica beccabunga Linnaeus   brooklime Europe, temperate Asia, North Africa; introduced into ...