Longmans, Green and Co.
1922
HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A SAGE
From a 12th century copy of the Herbarium of Apuleius, now in the Library of Eton College
TO
MY BROTHER
“The Lely is an herbe wyth a whyte floure. And though the levys of the floure be whyte: yet wythin shyneth the lykenesse of golde.”—Bartholomæus Anglicus (circ. 1260).