Chap. 74.] THE PHLOMIS. 127 



CHAP. 71. (10.) EBTJLTJM : SIX REMEDIES. 



A fumigation, too, of ebulum, 80 a plant known to every one, 

 will put serpents to flight. 



CHAP. 72. POLEMONIA I ONE .REMEDY. 



The root of polemonia, 81 even worn as an amulet only, is 

 particularly useful for repelling the attacks of scorpions, as also 

 the phalangium and other small insects of a venomous nature. 

 For injuries inflicted by the scorpion, aristolochia 82 is also used, 

 or agaric, in doses of four oboli to four cyathi of wine. For 

 the bite of the phalangium, vervain is employed, in combina- 

 tion with wine or oxy crate : cinquefoil, too, aod daucus, are 

 used for a similar purpose. 



CHAP. 73. PHLOMOS OR VERBASCUM : FIFTEEN REMEDIES. 



Verbascum has the name of " phlomos" with the Greeks. 

 Of this plant there are two principal kinds ; the white, 83 which 

 is considered to be the male, and the black, 84 thought to be the 

 female. There is a third 85 kind, also, which is only found in 

 the woods. The leaves of these plants are larger than those of 

 the cabbage, and have a hairy surface: the stem is upright, and 

 more than a cubit in height, and the seed black, and never 

 used. The root is single, and about the thickness of the finger. 

 The two principal kinds are found growing in champaign locali- 

 ties. The wild verbascum has leaves like those of elelisphacus, 86 

 but of an elongated form ; the branches are ligneous. 



CHAP. 74. THE PHLOMIS : ONE REMEDY. THE LYCHNIT1S OR 



THRYALLIS. 



There are also two 87 varieties of the phlomis, hairy plants, 



80 Or Wall-wort. See B. xxiv. c. 35. and B. xxvi. c. 49. 



81 See c. 28 of this Book. 82 See c. 54 of this Book. 



83 Identified by Fee with the Verbascum thapsus of Linnaeus, Great 

 mullein, High-taper, or Cow's lung-wort. 



84 Identified by Fee with the Verbascum sinuatum of Linnaeus. Des- 

 fontaines considers this to be the male plant of Pliny, and the V. thapsus 

 to be the female. 



85 Fee considers this to be the same as the Blattaria mentioned in c. 60, 

 and identifies it with the Verbascum phlomoides of Linnaeus. Sprengel 

 and Desfontaines consider it to be the Phlomis lychnitiu of Linnaeus. Littre 

 gives the Phlomis fruticosa of Linnaeus, the Jerusalem sage, or Tree sage. 



86 See B. xxii. c 71. 



67 Fee identifies these two kinds with the Phlomis fruticosa of Linnaeus ; 



