“_Herbarum matrem justum puto ponere primo; Præcipue morbis muliebribus illa medetur._” This influence of the Moon over the female portion of the human race has led to a class of plants being associated either directly with the luminary or with the goddesses who were formerly thought to impersonate or embody it. Thus we find the _Chrysanthemum leucanthemum_ named the Moon Daisy, because its shape resembles the pictures of a full moon, the type of a class of plants which Dr. Prior points out, “on the Doctrine of Signatures, were exhibited in uterine complaints, and dedicated in pagan times to the goddess of the Moon and regulator of monthly periods, Artemis, whom Horsley (on Hosea ix., 10) would identify with Isis, the goddess of the Egyptians, with Juno Lucina, and with Eileithuia, a deity who had special charge over the functions of women--an office in Roman Catholic mythology assigned to Mary Magdalene and Margaret.” The Costmary, or Maudeline-wort (_Balsamita vulgaris_); the Maghet, or May-weed (_Pyrethrum Parthenium_); the Mather, or Maydweed (_Anthemis Cotula_); the Daisy, or Marguerite (_Bellis perennis_); the _Achillea Matricaria_, &c., are all plants which come under the category of lunar herbs in their connection with feminine complaints. The Man in the Moon. Chaucer describes the Moon as Lady Cynthia:-- “Her gite was gray and full of spottis blake, And on her brest a chorle paintid ful even Bearing a bush of Thornis on his bake Which for his theft might climb no ner the heven.”