Olde Herbal Names

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Blood - Sap of Elder Tree 
Bloody Fingers- Foxglove Candlemas Maiden -
Snowdrop Candlewick Plant - Mullein 
Crown for a King - Wormwood 
Dew of the Sea - Rosemary 
Dragonwort - Bistort 
Earth Smoke - Fumitory Elfwort - Eclampane 
Enchanter’s Plant - Vervain 
Eye of the Star - Horehound 
Eyes - Aster Daisy 
Five Finger Grass - Cinquefoil 
Joy of the Mountain - Marjoram 
Lad’s Love - Southernwood 
Little Dragon - Tarragon 
Love in Idleness - Pansy 
Love Parsley - Lovage Loveroot - Orris *
Maiden’s Ruin - Southernwood 
Master of the Woods - Woodruff 
Masterwort - Angelica May Lily - Lily of the valley 
Mistress of the Night - Tuberose 
Password - Primrose 
Queen of Meadow - Meadowsweet 
Ram’s Head - American Valerian 
Seven Year’s Love - Yarrow 
Sleepwort - Lettuce 
Sorcerer’s Violet - Periwinkle 
Star of the Earth - Avens 
Starflower - Borage 
Starweed - Chickweed 
Starwort - Aster 
Thousand Seal - Yarrow 
Thunder Plant - Houseleek 
Unicorn Horn - True Unicorn Root 
Wax Dolls - Fumitory 
Witch Herb - Mugwort
Witches Asprin - White Willow Bark 
Witches Bells - Foxglove 
Witches Briar - Briar Hip 
Witchgrass - Dog Grass 
Witchwood - Rowan

Lovage The Garden Lovage is one of the old English herbs that was formerly very generally cultivated, and is still occasionally cultivated as a sweet herb, and for the use in herbal medicine of its root, and to a less degree, the leaves and seeds. It is a true perennial and hence is very easy to keep in garden cultivation; it can be propagated by offsets like Rhubarb, and it is very hardy. Its old-time repute has suffered by the substitution of the medicinally more powerful Milfoil and Tansy, just as was the case when ‘Elecampane’ superseded Angelica in medical use. The public-house cordial named ‘Lovage,’ formerly much in vogue, however, owed such virtue as it may have possessed to Tansy. Freshly-gathered leafstalks of Lovage (for flavouring purposes) should be employed in long split lengths.
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Lovage

The Garden Lovage is one of the old English herbs that was formerly very generally cultivated, and is still occasionally cultivated as a sweet herb, and for the use in herbal medicine of its root, and to a less degree, the leaves and seeds.

It is a true perennial and hence is very easy to keep in garden cultivation; it can be propagated by offsets like Rhubarb, and it is very hardy. Its old-time repute has suffered by the substitution of the medicinally more powerful Milfoil and Tansy, just as was the case when ‘Elecampane’ superseded Angelica in medical use. The public-house cordial named ‘Lovage,’ formerly much in vogue, however, owed such virtue as it may have possessed to Tansy. Freshly-gathered leafstalks of Lovage (for flavouring purposes) should be employed in long split lengths.

Rosemary The evergreen leaves of this shrubby herb are about 1 inch long, linear, revolute, dark green above and paler and glandular beneath, with an odour pungently aromatic and somewhat camphoraceous. The flowers are small and pale blue. Much of the active volatile principle resides in their calyces. There are silver and goldstriped varieties, but the green-leaved variety is the kind used medicinally. The oil of Rosemary, distilled from the flowering tops, as directedin the British Pharmacopceia, is a superior oil to that obtained from the stem and leaves, but nearly all the commercial oil is distilled from the stem and leaves of the wild plant before it is in flower. (Rosemary is one of the plants like lavender which grows better in England than anywhere, else, and English oil of Rosemary, though it is infinitely superior to what of other countries, is hardly found in commerce to-day. The bulk of the commercial oil comes from France, Dalamatia, Spain and Japan.)
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Rosemary

The evergreen leaves of this shrubby herb are about 1 inch long, linear, revolute, dark green above and paler and glandular beneath, with an odour pungently aromatic and somewhat camphoraceous. The flowers are small and pale blue. Much of the active volatile principle resides in their calyces. There are silver and goldstriped varieties, but the green-leaved variety is the kind used medicinally.

The oil of Rosemary, distilled from the flowering tops, as directedin the British Pharmacopceia, is a superior oil to that obtained from the stem and leaves, but nearly all the commercial oil is distilled from the stem and leaves of the wild plant before it is in flower. (Rosemary is one of the plants like lavender which grows better in England than anywhere, else, and English oil of Rosemary, though it is infinitely superior to what of other countries, is hardly found in commerce to-day. The bulk of the commercial oil comes from France, Dalamatia, Spain and Japan.)

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