Chap. 81.] INJURIES INFLICTED BY INSECTS. 455 



CHAP. 78. THE PLANT MILTAEIA I ONE REMEDY. 



" Miliaria " 70 is the name given to a plant which kills millet : 

 this plant, it is said, is a cure for gout in beasts of burden, 

 beaten up and administered in wine, with the aid of a horn. 



CHAP. 79. BliOMOS: ONE REMEDY. 



Bromos 71 is the seed also of a plant which bears an ear. It 

 is a kind of oat which grows among corn, to which it is inju- 

 rious ; the leaves and stalk of it resemble those of wheat, and 

 at the extremity it bears seeds, hanging down, something like 

 small locusts" 2 in appearance. The seed of this plant is useful 

 for plasters, like barley and other grain of a similar nature. 

 A decoction of it is good for coughs. 



CHAP. 80. OKOBANCHE, Oil CYNOMORIONt ONE KEMEDY. 



We have mentioned 73 orobanche as the name of a plant 

 which kills the fitch and other leguminous plants. Home, 

 persons have called it " cynomoriori," from the resemblance 

 which it bears to the genitals of a dog. The stem of it is 

 leafless, thick, and red. It is eaten either raw, or boiled in the 

 saucepan, while young and tender. 



CHAP. 81. KEMEDIES FOR INJURIES INFLICTED BY INSECTS WHICH 



BREED AMONG LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



There are some venomous insects also, of the solipuga 74 kind, 

 which breed upon leguminous plants, and which, by stinging 

 the hands, endanger life. For these stings all those remedies 

 are efficacious which have been mentioned for the bite of the 

 spider and the phalangium. 75 Such, then, are the medicinal 

 properties for which the cereals are employed. 



7 Fee identifies this plant with the Cuscuta Europaea of Linnaeus. 

 Sprens:el takes it to be the Panicum verticillatum of Linnaeus. 



71 flie Avena sativa of Linnaeus ; the cultivated oat, and not the Greek 

 oat of H. xviii. c. 42. 



73 The term " locusta" has been borrowed by botanists to characterize 

 the fructification of gramineous plants. 



7S In B. xviii. c. 44. The present, Fee thinks, is a different plant from 

 the Cuscuta Europsea, and he identifies it with the Orobanche caryophyl- 

 lacea of Smith, or else the Orobanche ramosa of Linnaeus. The Oro- 

 banche is so called from its choking (dy%tt) the orobus or ervum. It is 

 also found to be injurious to beans, trefoil, aiid hemp. In Italy, the stalks 

 are eaten as a substitute for asparagus. 



7 * See B. yiii. c. 43. 75 See B. x. c. 95, and B. xi. cc. 24, 28. 



