BOOKS

Allen, David E. and Hatfield, 

Gabrielle. Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: 

An Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland. 

Portland: Timber Press, 2004    ISBN 

0881926388

Grieve, Mrs. M. A Modern Herbal: The 

Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic 

Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs,

 Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees with all 

their Modern Scientific Uses. New York: Dover,

 1971 [in two volumes]  ISBN 0486227987 and

 0486227995

Knab, Sophi Hodorowicz. Polish Herbs, 

Flowers and Folk Medicine. NY: Hippocrene 

Books, 1999    ISBN 0781807867

Kowalchik, Claire and Hylton, William H. 

eds. Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of 

Herbs. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1987   

 ISBN 0878576991

Strehlow, Wighard and Hertzka, Gottfried.

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine. Santa Fe: 

Bear and Company, 1988  ISBN 0939680440

LOVE HERBS

This is from the presentation given at Haire 

Affaire: An Affair of the Heart on 28 Mar 2009.

 Please note that the information presented 

here is for instructional purposes only. I do 

NOT recommend the usage given as too many

of the plants listed can be dangerous to use. 

REFERENCES:

MIRTO AND MYTH (Myrtle)

http://www.produttorimirtodisardegna.it/code/

pagine/id/3/LINGUA/EN - broken link

THE HERB SOCIETY/UK

http://www.herbsociety.co.uk/index.html -

broken link

THE FLOWER EXPERT: Online flowers 

encyclopedia

http://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/about 

flowers/flowers-meanings

Allen, David E. and Hatfield, Gabrielle.

Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An 

Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland. Portland: 

Timber Press, 2004    ISBN 0881926388

Knab, Sophi Hodorowicz. Polish Herbs, 

Flowers and Folk Medicine. NY: Hippocrene 

Books, 1999    ISBN 0781807867

Kowalchik, Claire and Hylton, William H. eds.

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs. 

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1987    ISBN 

0878576991

Medieval Plant Usage of Poland

Websites:

http://ethnovetweb.com/ethnobotany.htm

Checklist of non-vascular and vascular plants of Slovakia

http://ibot.sav.sk/page/checklist.html

Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant 

Biology and Science Journals

http://www.e-journals.org/botany/

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/

History_of_Poland:_Primary_Documents

Euro+Med Plant Base

http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html

National Herbarium of Ukraine

http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/herbar/vask_e.htm

INSTYTUT BOTANIKI UNIWERSYTETU 

JAGIELLONSKIEGO

http://www.ib.uj.edu.pl/en/?d=zaklady,

GERMANY @ FLORACYBERIA

http://www.floracyberia.net/countries/germany/

index.html

Medieval Plant Usage of Scandinavia

Henriette’s Herbal Home Page

http://www.henriettesherbal.com/

Index of Viking Food Preparation

http://www.drakt.org/Viking/Foodpreparation/

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/index.shtml

Database and information system for the 

vascular plants of Europe and the 

Mediterranean region

http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html

Plants of Sweden

http://www.floracyberia.net/countries/sweden/index.html

The Flora of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age 

England

http://www.regia.org/flora.htm

Ethnobotanical links

Ethnobotany--links to other sites, primarily 

medical

http://ethnovetweb.com/ethnobotany.htm

Slovenian link

http://ibot.sav.sk/page/checklist.html

CIEER - Centre For International 

Ethnomedicinal Education and Research

Links to medical, archaelogical, 

paleoethnobotanical, sites, etc.

http://www.cieer.org/directory.html

Germany @ Flora.cyberia

http://www.floracyberia.net/countries/germany/index.html

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/science/botany/

Flora of North-east England

http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/northumbria/

Plants of Iceland: Cakile arctica, Arctic Sea 

Rocket

http://www.iceland-nh.net/plants/data/Cakile-arctica/cakile_arctica.html

Electronic Sites of Botany, Plant Biology & Science Journals

http://www.e-journals.org/botany/

Medicinal Plants Links

Medieval Medicine - 

http://www.maggietron.com/med/