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  1. Garden Physic
  2. The Yard Wants What the Yard Wants
  3. Plants Reduced to the Idea of Plants
  4. Plants Further Reduced to the Idea of Plants
  5. The Garden Body: A Florilegium
  6. Where Horsetail Intersects String
  7. Equisetum hyemale (Rough Horsetail)
  8. Ferns and Fern Allies
  9. Catkin-Bearing Trees and Shrubs
  10. Violet
  11. Viola
  12. White Flower II
  13. Root of Scarcity
  14. Corn Crowfoot, Corn Buttercup
  15. Grasscloth
  16. Grasscloth (Millefleur)
  17. Wallpaper
  18. William Morris in His Disappointment Garden
  19. Floral Correspondences
  20. My Darling,
  21. Dear,
  22. My Dear Love,
  23. My Dear,
  24. My Darling,
  25. My Dear Love,
  26. Oh Darling,
  27. O’ My Love,
  28. My My My,
  29. My Own Own Darling,
  30. My Dear Love,
  31. Dearest,
  32. Darling,
  33. De Materia Medica
  34. THE CONTENTS
  35. THE OATH
  36. THE DEDICATION
  37. SO BLOOMS
  38. Prelude
  39. Flowers of Brass [Book 5.88]
  40. Habitat
  41. Origins of the Poem
  42. So Blooms—
  43. So Blooms—
  44. ’Struth—
  45. “Pick me … ”
  46. “Pick me … ”
  47. So Blooms the Aromatics
  48. Near Running Water, Streams, and Creeks
  49. So Blooms the Garden of Creatures of Land and Creatures of Sea
  50. APPENDIX A
  51. APPENDIX B
  52. APPENDIX C
  53. APPENDIX D
  54. APPENDIX D (1)
  55. APPENDIX E
  56. APPENDIX E (1)
  57. APPENDIX E (2)
  58. Notes and Sources
  59. Index
  60. Acknowledgments

Wild Bastard Cress! [2.186]

Wild Figs! [1.184]

Odds, Sods, and Improbabilities

Archangel [Cul.]

Ass of the Priest [3.47]

Brandy Bottle [3.149]

Candy Carrot [3.87]

Chihuahua Ash [Unk.]

Cinnamon Wattle [Unk.]

Common Enchanter’s Nightshade [3.134]

Compass Plant [3.94]

Friars Cowl [2.198]

Langue de Bœuf [Cul.]

Military Orchid [3.141]

Pudding Grass [5.62]

Spring Snowflake [3.138]

Sticky Willy [3.104]

Turpentine Tree [5.39]

States of Mind and Manner

Bitter Apple [4.178]

Bitter Gourd [4.178]

Charity [4.8]

Chaste Tree [1.135]

Cheat [4.140]

Common Garden Patience [Cul.]

Flirtwort [Bot.]

Gold of Pleasure [4.117]

Great Garden Patience [Cul.]

Herb of Grace [3.52]

Herb True-love [Cul.]

Lily Constancy [Cul.]

Love in a Mist [3.93]

Madder [Cul.]

Madwort [Cul.]

Neglected Violet [4.122]

Petty Spurge [4.168; Cul.]

Poet’s Cassia [4.143]

Prickly Samphire [Cul.]

Rue [3.52]

Sage of Virtue [Cul.]

Sassy Bark [Bot.]

Sea Wallflower [Cul.]

Sensitive Plant [Bot.]

Spunk [Cul.]

Sweet Maudlin [4.59]

Water Forget-Me-Not [4.195]

Wall Rue [4.15b]

Widow Wail [4.172]

Anatomy and Afflictions

Abscess Root [Bot.]

Acheweed [Bot.]

Adam’s Apple [1.166]

All-Heal [Cul.; Bot.]

Arssmart [Cul.]

Arssmart, dead [Cul.]

Bindweed [Cul.]

Birthwort [Bot.]

Bladder Fucus [Bot.]

Bladder Herb [4.72]

Bladder Senna [Bot.]

Bladderwrack [4.100; Bot.]

Blister Plant [2.206]

Bloodwort [Cul.; Bot.]

Boneset [Bot.]

Consumptive’s Weed [Bot.]

Cough-wort [Cul.]

Cramp Bark [Bot.]

Crown Marigold [4.58]

Eyebright [Cul.]

Feverberry [Bot.]

Feverfew [3.86; Bot.]

Feverfew, common [Cul.]

Feverfew, corn [Cul.]

Feverfew, sea [Cul.]

Feverfew, sweet [Cul.]

Feverwort [3.9]

Fingers, bloody [Bot.]

Fingers, lady’s [3.153]

Fingers, dead man’s [3.144]

Five Fingers Grass [4.42]

Gout-herb [Cul.]

Goutweed [Bot.]

Handflower [Bot.]

Hart’s-horn [Cul.]

Hart’s Tongue Fern [3.121; Bot.]

Hartwort [Cul.]

Headache [Cul.; Bot.]

Heartichoke [Cul.]

Heart Mint [Cul.]

Heart of the Earth [Bot.]

Heart’s-ease [Cul.]

Heart Trefoil [Cul.]

Hepatica Triloba [Bot.]

Hurt-sickle [Cul.]

Kidney Beans [2.176]

Kidney-leaved Sowerweed [Cul.]

Kidney Vetch [3.153]

Kidneywort [Cul.; Bot.]

Knitbone [4.10]

Liver Balsam [4.29]

Liverleaf [Bot.]

Liverweed [Bot.]

Liverwort [4.41; Cul.; Bot.]

Liverwort, noble [Bot.]

(P)lumbago [5.100]

Lung Moss [Bot.]

Lungs, oak [Bot.]

Lungwort [4.150; Cul.; Bot.]

Memory Root [Bot.]

Nail-wort [Cul.]

Nailwort, thyme-leaved [4.54]

Navelwort [4.92]

Navelwort, sea [3.150]

Navelwort, Venus’s [4.92]

Nipplewort [2.142; Cul.]

Nosebleed [4.103; Cul.]

Palsywort [Bot.]

Paralysis [Cul.]

Pilewort, common [Cul.]

Piss-a-bed [Cul.]

Prick Madam [Cul.]

Quinsy-wort [Bot.]

Rheum [Bot.]

Ribwort [Cul.; Bot.]

Ribwort, plantain [Cul.]

Rupture-wort [Cul.]

Sanguinaria [Cul.]

Sanguisorbia [Cul.]

Sciatica Cress [Cul.]

Sciatica Grass [Cul.]

Sciatica-wort [Cul.]

Scurvy Grass, common garden [Cul.]

Scurvy Grass, Dutch round-leaved [Cul.]

Scurvy Grass, horse-radish [Cul.]

Scurvy Grass, ivy-leaved [Cul.]

Scurvy Grass, sea [Cul.]

Self-heal [Cul.; Bot.]

Skeletonweed [Unk.]

Sneezewort [2.192; Cul.]

Sneezewort Yarrow [Cul.]

Spined Akantha, white [3.20]

Spleenwort, black [3.151]

Spleenwort, common [4.137; Cul.]

Swallow wort [2.211; Cul.]

Sweatroot [Bot.]

Tetterwort [Bot.]

Throat-wort [Cul.]

Tongue Grass [2.185]

Tongue, double [1.49]

Toothpick [3.60]

Toothwort [Cul.]

Umbilicus Veneris [Cul.]

Warty Spurge, annual [4.165g]

With-wind [Cul.]

Woundwort [3.120; Bot.]

Woundwort, clown’s [Bot.]

Woundwort, hedge [4.35]

Woundwort, Hercule’s [Cul.]

Woundwort, marsh [Bot.]

Woundwort, mountain [4.33]

Menagerie

Adder’s Tongue [3.131; Cul.]

Bearberry [Bot.]

Bear Root [1.13]

Bear’s Breeches [3.19; Cul.]

Bee Balm [3.118]

Bird’s Eye [Bot.]

Bird’s Foot [Cul.]

Bird’s Foot Trefoil [4.112]

Bird Pepper [Cul.]

Buck’s Horn [Cul.]