[256.] Sambucus ebulus, Danewort. See Mr Gillett’s note for Book of Quintessence in Hampole’s Treatises. Fr. hieble, Wallwort, dwarfe Elderne, Danewort. Cotgr.
[257.] Erbe Iõn’, or Seynt Ionys worte. Perforata, fuga demonum, ypericon. P. Parv.
[258.] Centaury.
[259.] Ribwort, arnoglossa. Ribwoort or ribgrasse, plantago. Withals. Plantain petit. Ribwort, Ribwort Plantaine, Dogs-rib, Lambes-tongue. Cotgrave. Plantago lanceolata, AS. ribbe.
[260.] No separate note: see [note 252], above.
[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.”
[262.] Herba Benedicta. Avens.
[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.
[264.] Persil de marais. Smallage; or, wild water Parseley. Cot.
[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.