“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. 
