g and administering herbs--Transference of
disease--Predominance of the number nine--Ceremonies to be
observed in the picking of herbs--Nature-worship in these
ceremonies--Eostra--Prayer to Earth.

CHAPTER II

LATER MANUSCRIPT HERBALS AND THE EARLY PRINTED HERBALS 42

Later manuscript herbals--Copies of Macer's herbal--Treatise
on the virtues of rosemary sent by the Countess of Hainault
to Queen Philippa of England--Bartholomaeus Anglicus, _De
Proprietatibus rerum_--Popularity of his
writings--Characteristics of _De herbis_--Trevisa's
translation--Bartholomaeus on the rose, the violet,
etc.--Fleeting pictures of mediaeval life in _De
herbis_--Feeding swine, making bread, building houses,
making linen, life in the vineyards, woods, etc.--Wynken de
Worde's poem at the end of his edition of _De Proprietatibus
rerum_--_Banckes's Herbal_--Possible sources--Later
editions--Rose recipes--Mediaeval belief in wholesomeness of
fragrant herbs--Descriptions of herbs in _Banckes's
Herbal_--"The boke of secretes of Albartus Magnus"--Herb
lore and magic--The _Grete Herball_--Its origin--Peter
Treveris--Characteristics of this herbal--_The vertuose book
of the Dystillacion of the Waters of all maner of Herbes_.

CHAPTER III

TURNER'S HERBAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN HERBALISTS 75

William Turner--Cambridge with Nicholas Ridley--Travels
abroad--Bologna--Luca Ghini--Conrad
Gesner--Cologne--Appointed chaplain and physician to the
Duke of Somerset--His early writings on herbs--Turner's
Herbal--Illustrations--Characteristics of the
book--Descriptions of herbs--North-country lore--Old country
customs--Influence of the foreign herbalists on the later
English herbals--Leonhard Fuchs--Rembert Dodoens--Charles de
l'Escluse--Matthias de l'Obel--Lyte's translation of
Dodoens' _Cruydtboeck_--Illustrations--_Ram's little
Dodoen_.

CHAPTER IV

GERARD'S HERBAL 98

Popularity of Gerard's Herbal--Its charm--Gerard's
boyhood--Later life--His garden in Holborn--Friendship with
Jean Robin, keeper of the royal gardens in Paris--Origin of
Gerard's Herbal--Illustrations--Old beliefs in the effects
of herbs on the heart and mind--Use of herbs as
amulets--Other folk lore--Myth of the barnacle geese--Origi