88 WILD FLOWERS. 



FUMITORY, OR EARTHSMOKK 

 Fumaria. 



Welsh, Mwg-yr-ddaear. French, Fumeterre. German, Erd- 

 rauch. Dutch, Duivekervel. Italian, Fumosterno. 

 Spanish, Fumaria, Palomica, Palomilla. Portuguese, Fuma- 

 ria. Russian, Semlanjaorech. 



NATURAL. 



Diadelphia, Fumariacece, 



Hexandria. Fumaria. 



THE zeal and learning of Mr. T. J. Pettigrew has 

 presented to us an old English medical manuscript 

 preserved in the royal library at Stockholm ; which, 

 being traced back to the fourteenth century, appears 

 to be based, as he remarks, on the celebrated "JRegi- 

 men Sanitatis," or "Schola Salernitana," a poetical 

 compendium of the " healing craft," which is be- 

 lieved to have been composed in the eleventh cen- 

 tury by the celebrated physician, John of Milan, as 

 a "system of health" for Robert, Duke of Nor- 

 mandy ; and based on the far more ancient poem, 

 "De virtutibus Herbarum," of Odo, or ^Emilius, 

 Macer. This manuscript gives the following ac- 

 count of the manifold virtues of the fumitory. 



" Fumiter is erbe, I say, 

 Yt spryngyth i April et [and] in May, 



