MOONWORT Botrychum lunaria (L )Sw. (lat. lunaria = mondförmig)
"Many
say / this little herb increases and decreases with the moon / thus /
as many days as the month is old / as differently notched leafs the
herbs will bring forth. A lot of mischief is played with this plant /
especially among alchemists." Tabernaemontanus (1625): Kreuterbuch (Book on Herbs). Picture, above: Blackwell,
Elizabeth (1750-1773): Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum
[...]. Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni. [Ausschnitt]. © 1995-2003 Missouri Botanical Garden, Rare Books. http://ridgwaydb.mobot.org/mobot/rarebooks/ Picture, below:
Theodor, Jacob "Tabernaemontanus" (1625): Kreuterbuch. Herausgegeben
durch Caspar Bauhin [Ausschnitt, verändert] © www.kraeuter.ch, R
Fischbacher |