MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 161 Another ancient wound herb like Anthyllis vulneraria, Lotus corniculatus also featu ...

Trifolium pratense Linnaeus red clover Europe, western and central Asia, North Africa; introduced into North and South America, ...

Ireland’s employment of the ‘tops’ for rheumatic complaints is on record from Leitrim,^36 Westmeath,^37 Co.Dublin,^38 Wicklow^39 ...

jaundice and in Cavan^70 for heart trouble, while in parts of Ulster^71 it has been applied to ringworm and dermatitis and in Me ...

Daphne laureola Linnaeus spurge-laurel, wood-laurel western and southern Europe, Asia Minor, North Africa, Azores; introduced in ...

166 Circaea lutetiana Viscum album, mistletoe (Bock 1556, p. 358) widespread hybrid with the rare C. alpina Linnaeus) as an aphr ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 167 superstition probably gave birth to its medical fame.’^87 So wrote the otherwise en ...

168 Euonymus europaeus in children. Though mentioned by several other earlier writers, a record from Cumbria^106 is the only loc ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 169 medicinal use.Buxus sempervirens has been grown so widely as an orna- mental, thoug ...

170 Euphorbia Euphorbia peplus Linnaeus petty spurge, wartweed Europe, north-western Asia, North Africa, Azores; introduced into ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 171 stock for that purpose and its use for human beings was confined to practi- cal jok ...

172 Frangula alnus Frangula alnus Miller alder buckthorn Europe, north Asia, north-western Africa; introduced into North America ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 173 Polygalaceae Polygala vulgaris Linnaeus   common milkwort Europe, western As ...

174 Oxalis acetosella records ofOxalis acetosellaneed to be sifted with more than ordinary care. Luckily, in some cases ‘wood-so ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 175 Geranium robertianum Linnaeus herb-Robert, (foetid) crane’s-bill, bloodwort, red Ro ...

MacFarlane Threlkeld Shaw, 49 Pennant 1774, 310; Grant Martin, 226 Henderson & Dickson, 80 Lightfoot, 389; Pennant 1774, 31 ...

  Legumes, Spurges and Geraniums 177 Freethy, 112 Freethy, 112 Vickery MSS Gill, 298 Maloney McClafferty IFC S 617: 333 ...

178 Notes IFC S 385: 55 Freethy, 100 Hatfield, 42 ‘E.C.’ Tongue Whitlock 1976, 167 Hatfield, 27 Lafont 113.Notes and Queries,se ...

179 8 CHAPTER 10 Ivy and Umbellifers Dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order Apiales and families Araliaceae (ivies) and Ap ...

180 Hedera helix with fat, but in this case the Scottish instances (Ayrshire,^8 the Highlands^9 ) are joined by one from Devon.^ ...