Here's a bit of fun for those of you that may have been curious and a good reference for those of you who knew but wanted to put it on your BOS for future reference
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Adders Fork:-- Adders tongue
Adders Tongue: -- Dogstooth Violet
An Eagle:-- Wild Garlic
Ass's Foot:-- Coltsfoot
Bat's Wings:-- Holly
Bear's Foot:-- Lady's Mantle
Bird's Eye - Germander Speedwell
Black Maidenhair:-- Black Spleenwort
Black Sampson:-- Echinacea
Blood from a Head:-- Lupine
Blood from a Shoulder:-- Bear's Breeches
Blood Leather:-- Reindeer Moss/Rock Tripe/Caribou Lichen
Blood of a Goose:-- A Mulberry Tree's Milk
Blood of an Eye:-- Tamarisk Gall
Blood of Ares:-- Purslane
Blood of Hephaistos:-- Wormwood
Blood of Hestia:-- Camomile
Blood:-- Elder sap or another tree sap
Bloodwort:-- Yarrow
Bone of an Ibis:-- Buckthorn
Bread and Cheese Tree:-- Hawthorne. Whitethorn, Hazels,
Bull's Blood:-- Horehound
Bull's Foot: - Coltsfoot
Burning Bush:-- Fraxinella, Bastard, or False/White Dittany
Calf's Snout:-- Snapdragon
Candelmas Maiden:-- Snowdrop
Capon's Tail:-- Valerian
Cat's Foot - Canada Snake Root or Ground Ivy
Cheeses:-- Marsh Mallow
Chocolate Flower:-- Wild Geranium
Christ's Eye:-- Vervain Sage
Christ's Ladder:-- Centaury, Centaury Gentian, Century Red Centaury
Clear Eye:-- Clary Sage
Click:-- Goosegrass
Clot:-- Great Mullein
Corpse Plant:-- Indian Pipe. Fungus
Courtesy:---Summer Wind
Crowdy Kit:-- Figwort
Crow's Foot:-- Wild Geranium
Cuckoo's Bread:-- Common Plantain
Cucumber Tree:-- Magnolia
Cuddy's Lungs:-- Great Mullein
Daphne:-- Laurel/Bay
Devils Dung - Asafoetida
Devil's Plaything:-- Yarrow
Dew of the Sea:-- Rosemary
Dog's Mouth - Snap Dragon
Dogs Tongue - Conoglossum Officinale
Dove's Foot:-- Wild Geranium
Dragon Wort:-- Bistort
Dragon's Blood - Calamus
Earth Smoke:-- Fumitory
Elf's Wort:-- Elecampane
Enchanter's Plant:-- Vervain
Englishman's Foot:-- Common Plantain
Erba Santa Maria:-- Spearmint
Everlasting Friendship:-- Goosegrass
Eye of Christ: - Germander Speedwell
Eye of Newt:-- Mustard Seed
Eye of the Day:-- Common Daisy
Eye of the Star:-- Horehound
Eye Root:-- Goldenseal
Eyes:-- Aster, Daisy, Eyebright, etc
Fairy Smoke:-- Indian Pipe
Fat from a Head:-- Spurge.
Felon Herb:-- Mugwort
Filwort. Centory. or Feverwort
Five Fingers:-- Five-leaf grass or Cinquefoil
Fox's Clote:-- Burdock
Frog's Foot - Bulbous Buttercup
From the Belly:-- Earth-apple.
From the Foot:-- Houseleek.
From the Loins:-- Chamomile.
Gazel's Hooves: - Quickset, Albespyne,
Goat's Foot - Ash Weed
God's Hair:-- Hart's Tongue Fern
Golden Star:-- Avens
Gosling Wing:-- Goosegrass
Graveyard Dust:-- Mullein
Great Ox-eye:-- Ox-eye Daisy
Hag's Taper:-- Great Mullein
Hagthorn:-- Hawthorn
Hair of Venus:-- Maidenhair Fern
Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon:-- Dill Seed
Hare's Beard:-- Great Mullein
Hawk's Heart:-- Heart of Wormwood
Heart of Osmund:-- Royal Fern
Herb of Grace:-- Vervain
Hind's Tongue:-- Hart's Tongue Fern
Holy Herb:-- Yerba Santa
Holy Rope:-- Common Agrimony
Hook and Arm:-- Yerba Santa
Horse Hoof:-- Coltsfoot
Horse Tongue:-- Hart's Tongue Fern
Hundred Eyes - Periwinkle
Innocence:-- Bluets
Jacob's Staff:-- Great Mullein
Joy of the Mountain:-- Marjoram
Jupiter's Staff:-- Great Mullein
King's Crown:-- Black Haw
Knight's Milfoil:-- Yarrow
Kronos blood:-- ocedar
Ladies' Meat- May Flower blossom
Lad's Love:-- Southernwood
Lady's Glove - Foxglove
Lamb's Ears:-- Betony
Lion's Hairs:-- Turnip leaves
Lion's Tooth:-- Dandelion
Little Dragon:-- Tarragon
Love in Idleness:-- Pansy
Love Leaves:-- Burdock
Love Lies Bleeding:-- Anemone
Love Man:-- Goosegrass
Love Parsley:-- Lovage
Love Root:-- Orris Root
Maiden's Ruin:-- Southernwood
Man's Bile:-- Turnip Sap
Man's Health:-- Ginseng
Master of the Woods:-- Woodruff
May Lily:-- Lily of the Valley
May Rose:-- Black Haw
May:-- Black Haw
Maypops:-- Passion Flower
Mistress of the Night:-- Tuberose
Moonwort:-- and actual Fern
Mutton Chops:-- Goosegrass
Nose Bleed:-- Yarrow
Old Man's Flannel:-- Great Mullein
Old Man's Pepper:-- Yarrow
Old-Maid's-Nightcap:-- Wild Geranium
Oliver:-- Olive
Osmund the Waterman:-- Royal Fern
Password:-- Primrose
Peter's Staff:-- Great Mullein
Pig's Tail:-- Leopard's Bane
Poor Man's Treacle:-- Garlic
Priest's Crown:-- Dandelion leaves
Pucha-pat:-- Patchouli
Queen of the Meadow Root:-- Gravelroot
Queen of the Meadow:-- Meadowsweet
Queen of the Night:-- Night Blooming Cereus or Vanilla Cactus.
Ram's Head:-- American Valerian
Red Cockscomb:-- Amaranth
Ring-o-bells:-- Bluebells
Robin-run-in-the-grass:-- Goosegrass
Scaldhead:-- Blackberry
See Bright:-- Clary Sage
Seed of Horus:-- Horehound
Semen of Ammon:-- Houseleek.
Semen of Ares:-- Clover
Semen of Helios:-- White Hellebore
Semen of Hephaistos:-- Fleabane
Semen of Herakles:-- Mustard-Greens
Semen of Hermes:-- Dill
Seven Year's Love:-- Yarrow
Shameface:-- Wild Geranium
Shepherd's Heart - Shepherd's Purse
Silver Bells:-- Black Haw
Sleep Sand: - Dill Juice
Sopewort:-- Soapwort/Bruisewort
Sorcerer's Violet:-- Periwinkle
Sparrow's Tongue:-- Knotweed
St. John's Herb:-- Hemp Agrimony (not St. John's Wort)
St. John's Plant:-- Mugwort
Star Flower:-- Borage
Star of the Earth:-- Avens
Starweed:-- Chickweed
Sweethearts:-- Goosegrass
Sweet-scented Cactus. Large-flowered Cactus
Swine's Snout:-- Dandelion leaves
Tanner's Bark:-- Common Oak
Tarragon:-- Mugwort
Tartar Root:-- Ginseng
Thousand Weed:-- Yarrow
Thunder Plant:-- House Leek
Titan's Blood:-- Wild Lettuce
Toad - Toadflax
Tongue of Dog:-- Hound's Tongue
Tongue of a Turnip: - Turnip leaves
Torches:-- Great Mullein
Unicorn Horn:-- True Unicorn Root
Unicorn Root:-- Ague Root
Unicorn's Horn - False Unicorn Root
Wax Dolls:-- Fumitory
Weazel Snout:-- Yellow Dead Nettles
Weed:-- Ox-Eye Daisy
White Man's Foot:-- Common Plantain
White Wood:-- White Cinnamon
White:-- Ox-eye Daisy
Witch's Asprin:-- White Willow/Willow Bark
Witch's Brier:-- Brier Hips
Witches' Gloves: - Foxglove
Wolf Claw:-- Club Moss
Wolf Foot - Bugle Weed
Wolf's Milk:-- Euphorbia
Suggested Reading:
Magical Herbalism
The Secret Craft of the Wise
By Scott Cunningham
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