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An Illustrated Old English Herbal (2017)
- gerdesj 8y agoFor instance, a snake appears near the entry for sweet basil, called ‘snake plant’ (naedderwyrt), because it was reported to grow where snakes were found and to be useful against injuries caused by snakes. naedderwyrt looks suspiciously as though it might eventually become "adderwort". Ahh yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipera_berus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipera_berus (see etymology). Getting from adderwort to snake plant is pretty obvious but may be too generic.
- pvaldes 8y agommh... don't look like the real species of plants. The called snakeplant is not a sweet basil. Could be a very stylised viper's bugloss or even a heath. "Streawerian" looks like an Ivy-leaved Speedwell. Both names have same letters in similar places (S_E_WE_), so maybe the image was mistakenly copied from a source damaged and partially deleted. A repainted P could be mistaken by a combination of TR and 'eed' could be reinterpreted as 'ea'.