Chap. 112.] THE KODAEUM. 69 



statue, gathered in the lappet of any one of the garments, and 

 then attached with a red string to the neck, is an instantaneous 

 cure for head- ache. 



CHAP. 107. — A PLANT GEOWESTG ON THE BANKS OF A EITEE 1 



ONE KEMEDr. 



Any plant that is gathered before sunrise on the banks of a 

 stream or river, due care being taken that no one sees it 

 gathered, attached to the left arm without the patient knowing 

 what it is, will cure a tertian fever, they say. , 



CHAP. 108. THE HEEB CALLED LJNGIJA : ONE EEMEDY. 



There is a herb called '' lingua,"^ which grows in the 

 vicinity of fountains. The root of it, reduced to ashes and 

 beaten up with hog's lard — the hog, they say, must have been 

 black and barren — will cure alopecy, the head being^ rubbed 

 with it in the sun. 



CHAP. 109. PLANTS THAT TAKE EOOT IN A SIEVE: ONE 



EEMEDY. 



Plants that take root in a sieve that has been thrown in 

 a hedge-row, if gathered and worn upon the person by a preg- 

 nant woman, will facilitate delivery. 



CHAP. 110. PLANTS GROWING UPON DUNGHILLS: ONE EEMEDY. 



A plant that has been grown upon a dungheap in a field, is 

 a very efficacious remedy, taken in water, for quinzy. 



CUAP. 111. PLANTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOISTENED WITH THE 



UEINE OF A DOG : ONE EEilEDY. 



A plant upon which a dog has watered, torn up by the roots, 

 and not touched with iron, is a very speedy cure for sprains. 



CHAP. 112. THE EODAEUDi: THEEE EEilEDIES. 



We have already-"* made mention of the rumpotinus, when 

 speaking of the vine-growing^^ trees. !Near the tree, when not 



of a statue. Numerous mosses grow upon marble; and statues are 

 gradually covered, Fee says, with the Byssus antiquitatis. 



^ " Tongue " plant. Fee identifies it with the Scolopendrium officinarum 

 of Willdenow, the Lingua cervina of other botanists. See B. sxv, c. 84. 



2^ In B. xiv. c. 3. -^ Or " vine-supporting." 



