[Footnote 255: ? The sweet Fennel, _Anethum Graveolens_, formerly much used in medicine (Thomson). The gigantic fennel is (_Ferula_) _Assafœtida_.] [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.] [Footnote 257: Erbe Iõn’, or Seynt Ionys worte. _Perforata, fuga demonum_, _ypericon_. P. Parv.] [Footnote 258: Centaury.] [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.] [Footnote 266: Scabiosa, the Herb _Scabious_, so call’d from its Virtue in curing the Itch; it is also good for Impostumes, Coughs, Pleurisy, Quinsey, &c. Phillips.] [Footnote 267: _See footnote 258, above._] [Footnote 268: See the duties and allowances of ‘The Gentylmen Usshers of Chaumbre .IIII. of Edw. IV.’, in _H. Ord._ p. 37; and the duties of Henry VIII’s Knight Marshal, _ib._ p. 150.]