" The leaves of adder's-tongue stamped in a stone mortar and 

 boiled in olive oyle unto the consumption of the juice, and until the 

 herbs be dried, and parched and then strained, will yeelde most ex- 

 cellent greene oyle or rather balsame for greene wounds comparable 

 to oyle of St. John's-wort if it do not farre surpasse it." GERARDE. 



