Philippa, Queen, 44, 56 _Physical Directory, The_, 163 "Picielt," 128 _et seq._ Pimpernel, 43 _Pinax_, 151 Plantain, 9, 18, 29, 30, 135 _Plantarum seu Stirpium historia_, 94 Plantin, Christophe, 93, 94, 96 Platearius, Matthaeus, 66, 69 Pliny, 8, 10, 31, 88, 89 Plukenet, Leonard, 218 Pocahontas, Princess, 98 Porta, Giambattista, 233 Potato, 103, 116, 138 _Practica Petrocelli Salernitani_, 11 Priest, Dr., 98, 103 _Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine_, 59 Pulteney, Richard, 94 Purfoot, Thomas, 94 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 105 _Ram's little Dodoen_, 96, 212 Raspberry, 100 Ray, John, 81, 217 Red Indian plant-lore, 120, 125 _et seq._ Red wool, binding on herbs with, 28 Rhine, 77 Ridley, Nicholas, 76 "Rind from Paradise," 24 Robin, Jean, 102, 105 Rolfe, Dorothy, 98 Rose, 43, 48, 49, 60, 64, 117, 156, 180, 184, 185 Rose honey, 49 ---- water, 61 Rosemary, 44, 56, 57, 72, 106, 135, 148 Roses, oil of, 61 ---- syrup of, 60 Rue, 43, 108 Saffron, 92 Sage, 43, 44, 156 Salerno, 6, 11 Salimbene, 45, 46 Salisbury, Earl of, 102, 103 Salmon, William, 219 Samphire, 88 Sassafras, 132, 133 Scabious, 113, 114, 161 Scandinavian rune-lays, 32 Sceaf, 36 Scents, value of herbal, 61 Schott, Gaspar, 111 "Scythian Lamb," 143 _et seq._ Sedley, Lady, 177, 178 Selago, 30 "Sene," 63 Seville, 124, 131, 133 Shakespeare, 15, 118, 119 Sheldrake, Timothy, 222 Short, Thomas, 221 Signatures, doctrine of, 168 _et seq._, 231 Silverweed, 114 Singer, Dr. Charles, 19, 40 "Smell-feast," 160, 161 Smiths, 34, 35 Solomon, King, 84 Solomon's seal, 107, 157 Somerset, Duke of, 78, 83, 86 _Sorbus aucuparia_, 31 Southernwood, 73, 135, 136, 156 _South-Sea Herbal, The_, 139 _et seq._, 219 Sowerby, Leonard, 214 Spindle-tree, 90 Stars, mystic communion between flowers and, 187, 188 Stephens, Dr., 177 Still-room books, 174 _et seq._ _Stirpium Adversaria Nova_, 94, 103, 104 _Stirpium historiæ pemptades sex sive libri triginta_, 94, 111 Stokes, Jonathan, 224 Sugar, 138 Sun worship, 38 Sweet potato, 116 Swiss herbalists, 82, 83, 234, 235 Tabernæmontanus, 103, 234 Teazle, 75, 89 _Theatrum Botanicum_, 93, 142, 143, 144, 151 _et seq._, 214 Theobalds, 101 Thor, 3, 28 Thornton, Robert, 224 Thyme, 101, 150 Tiecon, 32 Tobacco, 128 _et seq._ ---- origin of the name, 131 ---- used as a wound herb in Europe, 131 ---- used by American Indians in religious ceremonies, 129, 130 Tradescant, John, 143, 148 Treffry, Sir John, 70 Treveris, Peter, 65, 69, 70, 74, 207 Trevisa, John de, 46 Tryon, Thomas, 181 Tulip, 146