Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician

Agrimony to yarrow: Nicholas Culpeper's outlaw herbal gave every English family the apothecary's secrets — each plant with its government, its virtues, and the diseases it was trusted to cure.

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Hairy Willow Herb

Description. This is a much smaller plant, but it has all the signature of the species. The leaves are finely notched at the edges, and of a deep green. The stalks are round, firm, upright, and two feet and a half high. The flowers are placed at the tops of the branches, and are large, and of a beautiful bright red.

Place. It is an inhabitant of our damp meadows.

Time. It flowers in July.

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