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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Welch Plantain

Description. This is a small but regular plant, exactly like those already described. The leaves rise from the root, and the lowermost ones lie in the ground. The ribs are conspicuous, and the stalks are firm, upright, and hoary. The flowers have little white buttons, conspicuous to the eye. They resemble the others already described in every other particular. Place. It is common upon hilly situations, and upon the Welch mountains. Time. It flowers rarely before June or July.

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