[Footnote 253: 'The common Mallowe, or the tawle wilde Mallow, and the common Hockes' of Lyte's Dodoens, 1578, p. 581, _Malua sylvestris_, as distinguished from the _Malua sativa_, or "_Rosa vltramarina_, that is to say, the Beyondesea Rose, in Frenche, _Maulue de iardin_ or _cultiuée_ ... in English, Holyhockes, and great tame Mallow, or great Mallowes of the Garden." The "Dwarffe Mallowe ... is called _Malua syluestris pumila_."]

[Footnote 254: Peritory, _parietaria_, _vrseolaris_, _vel astericum_. Withals.]

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[Footnote 255: ? The sweet Fennel, _Anethum Graveolens_, formerly much used in medicine (Thomson). The gigantic fennel is (_Ferula_) _Assafoetida_.]

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[Footnote 256: _Sambucus ebulus_, Danewort. See Mr Gillett's note for Book of Quintessence in Hampole's Treatises. Fr. _hieble_, Wallwort, dwarfe Elderne, Danewort. Cotgr.]

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[Footnote 257: Erbe Iõn', or Seynt Ionys worte. _Perforata, fuga demonum_, _ypericon_. P. Parv.]

[Footnote 259: Ribwort, _arnoglossa_. Ribwoort or ribgrasse, _plantago_. Withals. _Plantain petit_. Ribwort, Ribwort Plantaine, Dogs-rib, Lambes-tongue. Cotgrave. _Plantago lanceolata_, AS. _ribbe_.]

[Footnote 260: _No separate note: see Footnote 252, above._]

[Footnote 261: Haylife, an herbe. Palsgr. _Galium aparine_, A.S. _hegerifan corn_, grains of hedgerife (hayreve, or hayreff), are among the herbs prescribed in _Leechdoms_, v. 2, p. 345, for "a salve against the elfin race & nocturnal [goblin] visitors, & for the woman with whom the devil hath carnal commerce."]

[Footnote 262: _Herba Benedicta_. Avens.]

[Footnote 263: _Herbe a foulon_. Fullers hearbe, Sopewort, Mocke-gillouers, Bruisewort. Cotgrave. "AS. 1. _brysewyrt_, pimpernel, _anagallis_. _Anagallis_, brisewort." Gl. Rawlinson, c. 506, Gl. Harl. 3388. Leechdoms, vol. 1, p. 374. 2. _Bellis perennis_, MS. Laud. 553, fol. 9. Plainly for Hembriswyrt, daisy, AS. _dæges eage_. "Consolida minor. Daysie is an herbe þat sum men callet hembrisworte oþer bonewort." Gl. Douce, 290. Cockayne. _Leechdoms_, v. 2, Glossary.]

[Footnote 264: _Persil de marais_. Smallage; or, wild water Parseley. Cot.]

[Footnote 265: Brokelyme _fabaria_. Withals. _Veronica Becabunga_, Water-Speedwell. _Hleomoce_, _Hleomoc_, brooklime (where lime is the Saxon name (_Hleomoc_) in decay), _Veronica beccabunga_, with _V. anagallis_ ... "It waxeth in brooks" ... Both sorts _Lemmike_, Dansk. They were the greater and the less "brokelemke," Gl. Bodley, 536. "Fabaria domestica _lemeke_." Gl. Rawl. c. 607.... Islandic _Lemiki_. Cockayne. Gloss. to _Leechdoms_, v. 2. It is prescribed, with the two centauries, for suppressed menses, and with _pulegium_, to bring a dead child away, &c. _Ib._ p. 331.]