CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

TUFTY WILLOW-HERB

Description. This rises from a long, thick, and fibrous root. The stalk is round, firm, upright, and two feet high. The leaves are narrow, oblong, and pointed. They grow at the joints without foot-stalks below, but alternately above, and yet sometimes three are found at a joint; their colour is a grassy green. The flowers are small, of a pale red; they do not form a long compact spike, as those of the common kind, but growupon long foot-stalks, which rise with the leaves from the joints. The seed-vessels are round, and the seeds small and brown.

Place. It is found in damp places in the west of England.

Time. It flowers in July.