MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Daisies 301 made from the flowers and leaves was once a popular drink in Orkney, but apparently purely as a refreshme ...

a leaf inside the shoes^260 ). If put up the nostrils, as John Ray observed,^261 the leaves can also provoke a nosebleed and by ...

  Daisies 303 apparently never featured in the British Isles as a folk cure),Chamaemelum nobile has a strongly south-we ...

304 Chamaemelum nobile inhaling just the steam from that (Norfolk,^298 Glamorgan, Montgom- eryshire^299 ), though for asthma in ...

  Daisies 305 Anthemis cotula Linnaeus stinking chamomile Europe, northern and western Asia; introduced elsewhere (Folk ...

306 Leucanthemum vulgare to wounds as well.^336 The Gaelic name has been interpreted as implying a one- time widespread use for ...

ferentiation may well have come about, though, merely through the fact that S. aquaticushas the more succulent basal leaves, mak ...

308 Senecio Senecio vulgaris, groundsel (Brunfels 1530, p. 120) existed a firm belief that the smell of the plant, especially wh ...

  Daisies 309 medicinally in the name it bore in Old English: ‘groundsel’ meant pus- absorber.^385 A minor virtue of it ...

310 Tussilago farfara Tussilago farfara, colt’s-foot (Bock 1556, p. 158) Herefordshire,^412 Suffolk,^413 Fife^414 and the Highla ...

  Daisies 311 children the leaves, instead of being smoked, were boiled in milk.^422 The oint- ment for swellings once ...

312 Petasites hybridus The sole Irish records traced (Mayo,^435 Limerick^436 ) are both, as in Som- erset, as a rheumatism treat ...

and near-absence from the British ones leads one to suspect that, except in the case of a veterinary use mentioned by John Parki ...

314 Notes IFC S 820: 277 IFC S 825: 60, 94, 117 McClafferty IFC S 523: 271 McClafferty Gregory McGlinchey, 87 IFC S 412: 107 Co ...

  Daisies 315 Wright, 248 Maloney IFC S 888: 109 IFC S 22: 238; 617: 78 IFC S 497: 132 Hewett, 66 145a. A. Allen, 185 ...

316 Notes CECTL MSS Johnston 1829–31, i, 181 Spence Whitlock 1992, 115 A. Allen, 72, 74 Hatfield, appendix Williams MS Williams ...

  Daisies 317 IFC S 523: 169 Maloney IFC S 795: 191 IFC S 485: 56 IFC S 287: 67; 1128: 26 IFC S 914: 322 IFC S 933: 15 ...

318 Notes Moore 1898 Stedman Randell, 86 Cameron, 56 footnote Lafont Newman & Wilson IFC S 60: 302 Sargent IFC S 481: 143; ...

319 CHAPTER 16 Pondweeds, Grasses, Lilies and Orchids Monocotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Alismatales ...

Potamogetonaceae Potamogeton natans Linnaeus broad-leaved pondweed northern temperate zone Potamogeton polygonifolius Pourret bo ...