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The Family Herbal, 1812, was written by John Hill.

  • Acacia Tree.
  • Aconite.
  • Adder's-tongue.
  • Agrimony.
  • Alehoof or Ground-ivy.
  • Alkanet.
  • Allheal, or crown's allheal.
  • Almond tree.
  • Aloes Wood.
  • Angelica.
  • Anise.
  • Apples of Love.
  • Archangel.
  • Aron.
  • Arrach, or Stinking Arrach.
  • Arsmart or Water-pepper.
  • Artichoke.
  • Asarabacca.
  • Asparagus.
  • Asphodel.
  • Avens.
  • Balm.
  • Barley.
  • Barren wort.
  • Basil.
  • Bastard Saffron.
  • Bastard Sena.
  • Bear's-Breech.
  • Bear's-foot.
  • Beet.
  • Bind Weed.
  • Bishopsweed.
  • Bistort.
  • Bitter Gourd, called Bitter Apple.
  • Bitter-Sweet.
  • Black Bryony.
  • Black Henbane. White Henbane.
  • Black Horehound.
  • Black Maidenhair.
  • Black Pepper.
  • Black Poppy.
  • Black alder.
  • Blessed Thistle
  • Blood-wort.
  • Blue Bottle.
  • Borage.
  • Bramble.
  • Broad Leaved Plantain.
  • Brooklime.
  • Broom.
  • Buck-beans.
  • Buckshorn Plantain.
  • Buckthorn.
  • Bugle.
  • Bugloss.
  • Bur-reed.
  • Burdock.
  • Burnet Saxifrage.
  • Burnet.
  • Butchers-Broom.
  • Butter-bur.
  • Calamint.
  • Calves' Snout or Snapdragon.
  • Camel's Hay.
  • Candy Carots.
  • Candy Poleymountain.
  • Canterbury Bells.
  • Carline thistle.
  • Cassidony, or Arabian Staechas.
  • Catmint.
  • Chamomile.
  • Chaste Tree.
  • Chervil.
  • Chich.
  • Chick-weed.
  • Cinquefoil.
  • Clary.
  • Cleavers.
  • Cockle.
  • Colic Nard.
  • Coltsfoot.
  • Columbine.
  • Comfrey.
  • Common Acorus, or Yellow Flags.
  • Common Amomum.
  • Common Daffodill.
  • Common Ground Moss.
  • Common Mallow.
  • Common Nightshade.
  • Common Service Tree.
  • Common Wormwood.
  • Coral.
  • Coralline.
  • Coriander.
  • Corn Marigold.
  • Costmary.
  • Couch Grass.
  • Cow-wheat.
  • Cowslip of Jerusalem.
  • Cowslip.
  • Cranesbill.
  • Cretic Majoram.
  • Cross-wort.
  • Crow-foot.
  • Cuckow Flower, or Lady's smock.
  • Cudweed.
  • Cummin.
  • Cup Moss.
  • Dandelion.
  • Deadly Nightstade.
  • Devil's Bit.
  • Dill.
  • Dittander.
  • Dittany of Crete.
  • Dodder.
  • Dog Mercury.
  • Dog Tooth.
  • Dragons.
  • Dropwort.
  • Duck-weed.
  • Dwarf Elder.
  • Dyer's Weed.
  • Earth-Chesnut, or Earth-Nut.
  • Elder.
  • Elecampane.
  • Elm.
  • Endive.
  • English Maidenhair.
  • Eryngo.
  • Eye Bright.
  • Female Fern.
  • Fennel Flower.
  • Fennel. Sweet Fennel.
  • Fenugreek.
  • Feverfew.
  • Fig-tree.
  • Figwort.
  • Fir Tree.
  • Flax.
  • Fleabane.
  • Fleawort.
  • Flix Weed.
  • Flower Gentle.
  • Flower de Luce.
  • Flowering Fern.
  • Fluellin.
  • Fool's Stones.
  • Fox-glove.
  • Frankincense Tree.
  • French Mercury.
  • Frog Bit.
  • Fumitory.
  • Furze Bush.
  • Galangal Plant.
  • Garden Dock, called Monks' Rhubarb.
  • Garden Rocket.
  • Garden Scurvy Grass.
  • Garden valerian.
  • Garlic.
  • Gentian.
  • Germander.
  • Ginger.
  • Gladwyn.
  • Glasswort.
  • Goat's Beard.
  • Goat's Rue.
  • Goat's Thorn.
  • Gold of Pleasure.
  • Golden Lungwort.
  • Golden Maidenhair.
  • Golden Rod.
  • Golden Stoechas.
  • Good King Henry.
  • Gourd.
  • Gout Wort.
  • Great Celandine.
  • Great Houseleek.
  • Great Water Dock.
  • Great spurge.
  • Green liverwort.
  • Grey Ground Liverwort.
  • Gromvel.
  • Ground-Pine.
  • Groundsel.
  • Guaiacum Tree.
  • Guinea Pepper.
  • Gum Lac Tree.
  • Hairy Tree Moss.
  • Hare's Ears.
  • Hare's Foot.
  • Hart's Tongue.
  • Hartwort.
  • Hawthorn.
  • Hedge Hyssop.
  • Hedge Mustard.
  • Hemlock.
  • Hemp Agrimony.
  • Hemp.
  • Herb Mastic.
  • Hermodactyl Plant.
  • Hog's Fennel.
  • Holloak.
  • Honewort.
  • Honey-Suckle.
  • Honeywort.
  • Hop Plant.
  • Horse Radish.
  • Horsetail.
  • Hound's Tongue.
  • Hyssop.
  • Indian Spikenard.
  • Ivy.
  • Jacinth, or Hyacinth.
  • Jack by the Hedge.
  • Jalap Plant.
  • Jessamine.
  • Jesuit's Bark Tree.
  • Jews Ears.
  • Jujube Tree.
  • Juniper Shrub.
  • Kidney Wort.
  • Knap-weed.
  • Knot-grass.
  • Ladies' Bedstraw.
  • Ladies' Mantle.
  • Larch Tree.
  • Larks' Spur.
  • Lavender Cotton.
  • Lavender.
  • Lead wort.
  • Least Houseleek, or Wall Pepper.
  • Leek.
  • Lemon Tree.
  • Lentil.
  • Lettice.
  • Lily of the Valley.
  • Liquorice.
  • Little Celandine.
  • Little Centaury.
  • Long Cyperus. Round Cyperus.
  • Long Leaved Wild Mint.
  • Lovage.
  • Lupine.
  • Mace.
  • Macedonian Parsly.
  • Madder.
  • Male Fern.
  • Mandrake.
  • Marigold.
  • Marsh Mallow.
  • Masterwort.
  • Maudlin.
  • Meadow Saxifrage.
  • Meadow Sweet.
  • Melilot.
  • Milk Thistle.
  • Milkwort.
  • Millet.
  • Misletoe.
  • Mithridate Mustard.
  • Moonwort.
  • Moss of an Human Skull.
  • Mother of Thyme.
  • Motherwort.
  • Mouse-ear.
  • Mugwort.
  • Musk Mallow.
  • Mustard.
  • Nettle.
  • Noble Liverwort, or Hepatica.
  • Oak of Jerusalem.
  • Orpine.
  • Oxeye.
  • Palma Christi.
  • Panic.
  • Pareira Brava.
  • Parsly Piert.
  • Parsly.
  • Pellitory of Spain.
  • Pellitory of the Wall.
  • Penny-royal Calamint.
  • Penny-royal.
  • Peppermint.
  • Periwinkle.
  • Pimpernel.
  • Piony.
  • Pitch Tree.
  • Plowman's Spikenard.
  • Poleymountain.
  • Polypody.
  • Prickly Restharrow.
  • Primrose.
  • Privet.
  • Purging Flax.
  • Purple Loosestrife.
  • Purslain.
  • Ragwort.
  • Red Behen.
  • Red Darnell.
  • Red Fir Tree, or Pitch Tree.
  • Red Poppy.
  • Red Sage.
  • Rhapontic.
  • Rhubarb.
  • Rice.
  • Roman Wormwood.
  • Rosa Solis, or Sundew.
  • Rose of Jericho.
  • Rosemary.
  • Round-rooted Birthwort.
  • Rue-leaved Whitlow-Grass.
  • Rue.
  • Rupture-wort.
  • Saffron.
  • Sagapenum Plant.
  • Sage of Vitue.
  • Salep plant.
  • Samphire.
  • Sanicle.
  • Savine.
  • Scabious.
  • Scammony Plant.
  • Sciatica cress.
  • Sea Colewort, or Sea Bindweed.
  • Sea Scurvy Grass.
  • Sea Wormwood.
  • Self-heal.
  • Sharp-pointed Dock.
  • Shepherd's Purse.
  • Skirret.
  • Smallage.
  • Sneezewort.
  • Solomon's Seal.
  • Sopewort.
  • Sorrel.
  • Southernwood.
  • Sowthistle.
  • Spear Mint.
  • Speedwell.
  • Spelt, or St. Peter's Corn.
  • Spignel.
  • Spinage.
  • Spleenwort.
  • Sponge.
  • Spurge Laurel.
  • Squill.
  • St. Ignatius's Bean.
  • St. John's Wort.
  • Starwort.
  • Staves-acre.
  • Stinking Mayweed.
  • Succory.
  • Sumach.
  • Summer Savory.
  • Swallow-wort.
  • Sweet Marjoram.
  • Sweet Navew.
  • Sweet flag.
  • Syrian Mastic Thyme.
  • Tamarisk.
  • Tansy.
  • Tarragon.
  • Tea.
  • Teazle.
  • The Aloe Plant.
  • The Ammoniacum Plant.
  • The Asafoetida Plant.
  • The Ash.
  • The Balm of Gilead Shrub.
  • The Balsam of Capivi-Tree.
  • The Balsam of Peru-Tree.
  • The Balsam of Tolu-Tree.
  • The Barbery-Bush.
  • The Bay Tree.
  • The Bdellium Tree.
  • The Bean.
  • The Ben-Nut-tree.
  • The Bengal Bean-Tree.
  • The Benjamin Tree.
  • The Billberry Bush.
  • The Birch-Tree.
  • The Black Cherry Tree.
  • The Black Currant.
  • The Black Poplar.
  • The Box Tree.
  • The Camphire-Tree.
  • The Canel Bark-Tree, called the Winter's Bark-Tree.
  • The Caper Shrub.
  • The Caranna Tree.
  • The Caraway Plant.
  • The Cascarilla Tree.
  • The Cassia Bark Tree.
  • The Cassia Caryophythata, or Clove Bark Tree.
  • The Cassia Fistula Tree.
  • The Cassumunar Plant.
  • The Chesnut Tree.
  • The China-root Plant.
  • The Chocolate Nut-tree.
  • The Cinnamon Tree.
  • The Cistus Shrub.
  • The Citron Tree.
  • The Citrull.
  • The Clove Bark-Tree.
  • The Clove July Flower.
  • The Clove Spice Tree.
  • The Coculus Indi Tree.
  • The Codaga Shrub.
  • The Coffee-Tree.
  • The Colurine wood, or Snake-wood Tree.
  • The Common Reed.
  • The Contrayerva Plant.
  • The Copal Tree.
  • The Cornel Tree.
  • The Costus Plant.
  • The Cotton Thistle.
  • The Cotton Tree.
  • The Crab Tree.
  • The Cubeb Plant.
  • The Cucumber Plant.
  • The Cypress Tree.
  • The Damask Rose.
  • The Date Tree.
  • The Dog Rose, or Wild Rose.
  • The Dragon's Blood Tree.
  • The Euphorbium Plant.
  • The Garden Cress.
  • The Great Daisy.
  • The Gum Anime Tree.
  • The Hypocist.
  • The Indian Leaf Tree.
  • The Indian Myrobalan Tree.
  • The Jamaica Pepper Tree.
  • The Lesser Cardamom Plant.
  • The Lime Tree.
  • The Liquid Amber Tree.
  • The Liquid Storax Tree.
  • The Little Daisy.
  • The Logwood Tree.
  • The Long Pepper Plant.
  • The Malacca Bean-Tree.
  • The Manna Ash.
  • The Mastic Tree.
  • The Mechoacan Plant.
  • The Medlar Tree.
  • The Melon.
  • The Mezereon Shrub.
  • The Mulberry Tree.
  • The Myrrh Tree.
  • The Myrtle.
  • The Nutmeg Tree.
  • The Oak.
  • The Oily Palm Tree.
  • The Olive Tree.
  • The Onion.
  • The Opoponax Plant.
  • The Orange Tree.
  • The Pavana Shrub.
  • The Peach Tree.
  • The Pine Tree.
  • The Pistachia Tree.
  • The Pomegranate Tree.
  • The Pompkin.
  • The Quince Tree.
  • The Radish.
  • The Raspberry Bush.
  • The Rattle-Snake Root Plant.
  • The Red Rose.
  • The Red Saunders Tree.
  • The Right Service Tree.
  • The Roman Nettle.
  • The Rose-Wood Tree.
  • The Sarsaparilla Plant.
  • The Sassafras Tree.
  • The Scarlet Oak.
  • The Sebesten Tree.
  • The Senega Tree.
  • The Senna Shrub.
  • The Sloe Tree.
  • The Star Thistle.
  • The Starry Headed Anise Tree.
  • The Storax Tree.
  • The Strawberry Plant.
  • The Sugar Cane.
  • The Tacamahac Tree.
  • The Tamarind Tree.
  • The True Maidenhair.
  • The Turnip.
  • The Turpentine Tree.
  • The Vanilla Plant.
  • The Vine.
  • The Virginia Snakeroot Plant.
  • The Vomic Nut Tree.
  • The Walnut Tree.
  • The West-India-Bean, or Cashew Nut-Tree.
  • The White Poppy.
  • The White Rose.
  • The White Stock July Flower.
  • The White Willow.
  • The Wild Cucumber.
  • The Wild Pine Tree.
  • The Winter's Bark Tree.
  • The Wormseed Plant.
  • The Yellow and White Saunders Tree.
  • The Zedoary Plant.
  • The Zerumbeth Plant.
  • The lesser spurge.
  • Thorn Apple.
  • Thoroughwax.
  • Thyme.
  • Toad Flax.
  • Tobacco.
  • Tormentil.
  • Treacle Mustard.
  • Treacle Wormseed.
  • Tree Lungwort.
  • Tree of Life.
  • Trefoil.
  • True Amomum.
  • Turmeric.
  • Turpeth.
  • Tutsan.
  • Twy Blade.
  • Vervain Mallow.
  • Vervain.
  • Violet.
  • Viper's Bugloss.
  • Viper's Grass.
  • Wall-Flower.
  • Wart Cresses, or Swine's Cresses.
  • Water Arrow Head.
  • Water Cress.
  • Water Lily.
  • Water Mint.
  • Water Plantain.
  • White Behen.
  • White Bryony.
  • White Campion.
  • White Dittany.
  • White Horehound.
  • White Lily.
  • White Maidenhair.
  • White Mullien.
  • White Pepper.
  • White Saxifrage.
  • Wild Carrot.
  • Wild Lettice.
  • Wild Marjoram.
  • Wild Navew.
  • Wild Parsnep.
  • Wild Tansy.
  • Wild Valerian.
  • Winter Cherry.
  • Winter Green.
  • Woad.
  • Wood Betony.
  • Wood Sage.
  • Wood sorrel.
  • Woodruffe.
  • Yarrow.
  • Yellow Loosestrife.

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