plants covered can be grouped in two further ones to produce fourteen sec-
tions (Chapters 3–16) in all:
Nonvascular plants
Chapter 3 bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi
Vascular plants
Chapter 4 pteridophytes and conifers
Flowering plants: dicotyledons
Chapter 5 Magnoliiflorae: Nymphaeales to Papaverales (water-
lilies, buttercups and poppies)
Chapter 6 Hamameliflorae and Caryophylliflorae: Urticales to
Plumbaginales (elms to docks)
Chapter 7 Dilleniiflorae: Theales to Primulales (St John’s-worts to
primulas)
Chapter 8 Rosiflorae: Rosales (currants, succulents and roses)
Chapter 9 Rosiflorae: Fabales to Geraniales (legumes, spurges and
geraniums)
Chapter 10 Rosiflorae: Apiales (ivy and umbellifers)
Chapter 11 Asteriflorae: Gentianales and Solanales (gentians and
nightshades)
Chapter 12 Asteriflorae: Lamiales (comfrey, vervain and mints)
Chapter 13 Asteriflorae: Callitrichales to Scrophulariales (plantains,
figworts, foxglove and speedwells)
Chapter 14 Asteriflorae: Rubiales and Dipsacales (bedstraws, valer-
ian and scabious)
Chapter 15 Asteriflorae: Asterales (daisies)
Flowering plants: monocotyledons
Chapter 16 Alismatiflorae to Liliiflorae: Alismatales to Orchidales
(pondweeds, grasses, lilies and orchids)
Names of Ailments
The restriction of folk medicine mainly to surface complaints is reflected in
a comparatively limited set of terms, non-technical in character but doubt-
less commonly deceptive in an unreal broadness. Most, however, refer to
everyday complaints that are reasonably unambiguous. The only sensible
course has seemed to be to repeat the terms as they appear in the records
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