21-4, 'Nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati ultimi FLOS, praetereunte postquam tactus aratro est.
"The Student's Companion to Latin Authors"
George Middleton Thomas R. Mills
According to the mediaeval metrical treatise on medicine, FLOS Medicinae, or Regimen Sanitatis Salerni- "Spiritus uberior exit per phlebotomaniam."
"English Villages"
P. H. Ditchfield
A memorial brass over the tomb of Abbot Kirton, in Westminster Abbey, bears testimony to the high value he attached during life to Roses curatively:- "Sis, Rosa, FLOS florum, morbis medicina meoium."
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie