OTHER COMMON NAMES: COMMON WHITE JASMINE;JESSAMINE;POET'S JESSAMINE;SUMMER JASMINE;TRUE JASMINE

The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database, available at www.rhs.org.uk

Notes: This is in the College’s Pharmacopoeia of 1618 as “Sambacis vel [=or] Iasmine” and Culpeper (1653) does not list it along with the flowers in his translation, except (page 44) where he describes flowers according to their ‘properties’.

(1618). Pharmacopeia Londinensis (1618). The Royal College of Physicians, London

Culpeper (1649) “Jasmine flowers boiled in oil, and the grieved place bathed in it, taketh away cramps and stitches in the side: the plant is only preserved here in the gardens of some few, and because hard to come by, I pass it.”

Culpeper, Nicholas. (1650). A Physical Directory . London, Peter Cole.