MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Ivy and Umbellifers 181 Inone application alone, and that a minor one, does Ireland seem to have been overtaken by Br ...

182 Eryngium maritimum by the common E. maritimum of sandy shores, and at least some of the virtues claimed for the bitter root ...

  Ivy and Umbellifers 183 parsley’ known as tath lus in the Outer Hebrides, where, especially in Eriskay, a preparation ...

184 Conopodium majus Conopodium majus (Gouan) Loret pignut south-western and Atlantic Europe Well-known for its nut-like roots,C ...

  Ivy and Umbellifers 185 Coleman, which is, however, very rare in the county in question, where O. fis- tulosa on the ...

186 Oenanthe crocata That Manx use has found fuller expression in Ireland, where only a plant of such virulence has apparently b ...

Hiding behind those herbalists’ uses, however, may be some more purely folk ones. The curious alternative vernacular name which ...

nese physician Anton Storck, which despite much scepticism in higher med- ical circles in Britain following ambiguous reports of ...

  Ivy and Umbellifers 189 utilised in Limerick, too, for poulticing boils and abscesses.^109 Someone in Wicklow who val ...

190 Angelica sylvestris the wild plant are surprisingly few, yet surprisingly various: for lung and chest complaints in Londonde ...

  Ivy and Umbellifers 191 Daucus carota Linnaeus wild carrot Eurasia, North Africa; introduced into most other temperat ...

192 Notes IFC S 1099: 224 IFC S 825: 72 IFC S 654: 244; 655: 268 IFC S 191: 90 IFC S 571: 357 Logan, 81 Barbour IFC S 920: 70 I ...

  Ivy and Umbellifers 193 Taylor MS (Hatfield, 57) Henderson & Dickson, 80 Hatfield MS IFC S 550: 272 IFC S 746: 4 ...

194 8 CHAPTER 11 Gentians and Nightshades Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the orders (and families) Gentianales (Gentianaceae ...

  Gentians and Nightshades 195 seems sharply at variance with a lingering reputation in the Outer Hebrides^13 for also ...

196 Vinca Apocynaceae Vinca majorLinnaeus greater periwinkle southern Europe, North Africa;introduced into North America and els ...

of elder (Sambucus nigra), for the necklace placed round infants’ necks when teething (for more on which see under henbane,Hyosc ...

198 Hyoscyamus niger ration once used in that country is said to have had a reputation for curing any mental trouble.^40 But the ...

  Gentians and Nightshades 199 enteenth century,^53 and in several English counties ‘felon-wort’ and ‘felon- wood’, nam ...

200 Calystegia soldanella Convolvulaceae Calystegia soldanella (Linnaeus) R. Brown sea bindweed coasts of west and southern Euro ...