Chap. 112.] THE EODAEUM. 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 GROWING ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER: 

 ONE REMEDY. 



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 HERB CALLED LINGUA I ONE REMEDY. 



There is a herb called " lingua," 23 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 ROOT IN A SIEVE I ONE 



REMEDY. 



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 i'acilitate delivery. 



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



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

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



CHAP. 111. PLANTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOISTENED WITH THE 



URINE OF A DOG : ONE REMEDY. 



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 ROD ARUM! THREE REMEDIES. 



We have already 24 made mention of the rumpotinus, when 

 speaking of the vine-growing 25 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. 



23 " Tongue " plant. Fee identifies it with the Scolopendrium officinaruru 

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



24 In B. xiv. c. 3. 25 Or " vine-supporting." 



