268 Flint's natural histoet. [Book XXVil. 



the root of it there spring seven or eight small branches, 

 covered with thick, fleshy leaves ; it grows in cultivated spots, 

 and among vines in particular. It is used as an application 

 for freckles, being removed as soon as dry ; it is employed, 

 also, for white morphew,'^ being applied some six hours each 

 night or day, and the treatment continued for about three 

 months : after removing it, barley-meal should be applied. 

 Telephion is healing, also, for wounds and fistulas. 



CHAP. Ill . THE TEICHOMANES : FIVE KEMEDIES. 



The trichomanes* is a plant that resembles the adiantum,* ex- 

 cept that it is more slender and of a darker colour ; the leaves 

 of it, which are similar to those of the lentil, lie close together, 

 on opposite sides, and have a bitter taste. A decoction of this 

 plant, taken in white wine, with the addition of wild cummin, 

 is curative of strangury. Bruised and applied to the head, it 

 prevents the hair from falling off, and, where it has come off, 

 restores it : pounded and applied with oil, it effects the cure 

 of alopecy. The mere taste of it is provocative of sneezing. 



CHAP. 112. THE THALICTfiUM : ONE REMEDY. 



The thalictrum^ has leaves like those of coriander, only 

 somewhat more unctuous, and a stem resembling that of the 

 poppy.' It is found growing everywhere, in champaign locali- 

 ties more particularly. The leaves, applied with honey, heal 

 ulcers. 



CHAP. 113. THLASPI AND PEESICON NAPY : FOUR REMEDIES. 



Of thlaspi there are two kinds ; the first ^ of which has nar- 

 row leaves, about a finger in length and breadth, turned to- 

 green orpine ; and by Littre with the Cerinthe aspera, the Prickly honey- 

 wort. 3 <• Vitiligini." 



* The same plant as the Callitrichos of B. xxv. c. 86. 



5 See B. xxii. c. 30. 



^ Identified by Fee and Desfontaines with the Thalictrum minus of 

 Linnaeus, the Small meadow rue. Littre gives the Thalictrum flavum of 

 Linnaeus, the Common meadow rue. 



' In its colour. 



8 Fee identifies it with the Thlaspi campestre of Linnaeus, the Wild 

 bastard-grass ; Littre with the Thlaspi bursa pastoris of Linnaeus, Shep- 

 herd's purse, otherwise known as Capsella bursa pastoris. Desfontaines 

 gives as the Thlaspi of Galen, the Cochlearia draba of Linnaeus. 



