132 plint's natural history. [Book XXV. 



similar in appearance to the black poppy, and possessed of 

 greater virtues than the first. They are both, however, of a 

 warmicg nature, for which reason they are administered to 

 persons who have taken hemlock, a poison for which frankin- 

 cense and panaces are used, chironion^^ in particular. This 

 last, too, is given in cases of poisoning by fungi. 



CHAP. 83. (11.) REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE HEAD. 



NTMPHiEA HERACLIA : TWO REMEDIES. 



But we shall now proceed to point out the various classes 

 of remedies for the several parts of the body, and the maladies 

 to which those parts are subject, beginning in the first place 

 with the head. 



The root of nymphsea heraclia ^* efiects the cure of alopecy, 

 if they are beaten up together,'* and applied. The polythrix'® 

 differs from the callitrichos^'^ in having white, rushlike suckers, 

 larger leaves, and more numerous ; the main stem,'^ too, is 

 larger. This plant strengthens the hair, prevents it fi'om 

 falling off, and makes it grow more thickly. 



CHAP. 84. THE LINGULACA I ONE REMEDY. 



The same is the ease too with the lingulaca,^^ a plant that 

 grows in the vicinity of springs, and the root of which is 

 reduced to ashes, and beaten up with hog's lard. Due care 

 must be taken, however, that it is the lard of a female, of a 

 black colour, and one that has never farrowed. Tbe application 

 is rendered additionally efficacious, if the ointment is applied in 

 the sun. Boot, too, of cyclaminos is employed in the same 



c. 41, the same, in liis opinion, with the Narcissus jonquilla, the Emetic jon- 

 quil. Sprengel, however, would identify the Eulbus voniitorius with eitlier 

 the Narcissus orientalis or the Pancratium lllyricum ; and Sibthorp con- 

 siders its synonym to be the Ornithogalum stachyo'ides of Alton. Littre 

 gives the Muscari comosum. 



•' See c. 13 of this Book. 



1* See c. 37 of this Book, and B. xxvi. c. 28. 



^^ There seems to be an hiatus here. From the words of Dioscorides, 

 B. iii. c. 138, it would appear that pitch was the other ingredient, to be 

 beaten up with the phmt. 



'^ The same as the Polytrichos of B. xxii. c. 30. 



'" In B. xxii. c. 30, he makes them to be the same plant, and it is most 

 probable that they may be both referred to tlie Asplenium trichomaues of 

 Linnaeus. ^^ " Frutice." 



19 See B. xxiv. c. 108. 



