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root, if gathered by persons in a state of chastity and purity,'- 

 disperses scrofulous sores ; and the seed, used as an amulet, 

 allays the pains attendant upon varicose veins : pounded and 

 mixed witli water, it destroys fleas. 



CHAP. 13. (11.) THE STCEBE OR PHEOS. 



The stoebe,''^ by some persons known as the "pheos," boiled 

 in wine, is particularly good for the cure of suppurations of the 

 ears, and for extravasations of blood in the eyes from the efl'ects 

 of a blow. It is employed also in injections for haemorrhage 

 and dysentery. 



CHAP. 14. (12.) — TWO VARIETIES OF THE HIPPOPHAES : TWO 

 REMEDIES. 



The hippophaes" grows in sandy soils, and on the sea-shore. 

 It is a plant with white thorns, and covered with clusters, like 

 the ivy, the berries being white, and partly red. The root of 

 it is full of a juice which is either used by itself, or else is made 

 up into lozenges Avith meal of fitches : taken in doses of one 

 obolus, it carries off bile, and it is extremely beneficial if 

 used with honied wine. There is another'^^ hippophaes, with- 

 out either stalk or flowers, and consisting only of diminutive 

 leaves : the juice of this also is wonderfully useful for dropsy. 



These plants would appear, too, to be remarkably well 

 adapted to the constitution of the horse, as it can be for no 

 Dther reason than this that they have received their name."^ 



Dut would have the effect of imparting nutriment in a very high degree, 

 ivithout overloading the stomach. 

 "^^ A harmless, or, perhaps, beneficial, superstition. 

 ''- The synonym of this plant is probably unknovra. Dalechamps iden- 

 .ifies it with the Sagittaria sagittifolia, C. Bauhin with the Centaurea cal- 

 ;itrapa, and Clusius, Belli, and Sprengel, with the Poterium spinosum. 

 STone of these plants, however, are prickly and aquatic, characteristics, ac- 

 cording to Theophrastus, of the Stoebe : Hist. Plant. B. iv. c. 11. Fee 

 •onsiders its identification next to impossible. 



3 Probably the Hippophaes rhamnoides of Linnaeus. This, however, 

 I'ee says, has no milky juice, but a dry, tough, ligneous root. Spi-engil 

 dentifies it with the Euphorbia spinosa of Linnaeus, on account of Us 

 nilky juice; but that plant, as Fee remarks, does not bear berries, pru- 

 )erly so called, and the fruit is yellow and prickly. 



'* See B. xxvii. c. 66. It is identified by Fee with the Carduus stcllatus 

 •r Centaurea calcitrapa of Linnaeus, the common star-tliistle. 



'3 As compounds ofiTTTrog, a "horse." Hardouin, however, thinks that 



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