CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

WILLOW-HERB

Description. This is a shrubby plant. It has large, hollow, channelled stalks, divided into many branches full of leaves, three growing together on long foot-stalks, which are longer and broader than melilot, indented a little about the edges. The flowers grow in short round spikes, set on very long stalks, of a pale blue colour, being small and papilouaceous, set each in a particular calyx, and succeeded by short pods, containing two or three small yellow seeds. The root is woody and fibrous, perishing after seed-time.

Place. It grows in damp woods and marshy places, and has been observed near the banks of the Seven.

Time. It flowers in July.

Government and virtues. See the following.