Chap. 80.] THE MTOSOTA. 255 



name 25 from the circumstance that a white line runs through 

 the middle of the leaf; for which reason also, some give it the 

 name of " mesoleucon." 26 The juice of this plant is curative of 

 fistula, and the plant itself, bruised, is good for carcinomata. 

 It is prohably the same plant as that called " leucas," so 

 remarkably efficacious for the venom of all kinds of marine 

 animals. Authors have not given a description of it, beyond 

 telling us that the wild leucas has larger leaves than the other, 

 and has properties more strongly developed : they state also 

 that the seed of the cultivated kind is the more acrid of the 

 two. 



CHAP. 78. THE LETJCOGRAPHIS I FIVE REMEDIES. 



1 have not found a description given by any writer of the 

 leucographis ; 27 a thing I am the more surprised at, as they tell 

 us that it is good for the cure of spitting of blood, taken in 

 doses of three oboli with saffron ; as also that it is useful for 

 cceliac affections, applied beaten up in water, and in cases of 

 excessive menstruation. They state also that it enters into 

 the composition of ophthalmic preparations, and that it fills up 

 ulcers on the more tender parts of the body with new flesh. 



CHAP. 79. (12.) THE MEDION: THREE REMEDIES. 



The medion 28 has leaves like those of the cultivated seris, 29 

 a stem three feet in length, and a large, round, purple flower, 

 at its extremity. The seed is diminutive, and the root half a 

 foot in length : it grows upon umbrageous, sheltered rocks. 

 The root, taken in doses of two drachmae with honey, arrests 

 the catamenia, the electuary being used for some days. The 

 seed, too, is administered in wine for a similar purpose. 



CHAP. 80. THE MTOSOTA OR MYOSOTIS : THREE REMEDIES. 



The myosota 30 or myosotis is a smooth plant, throwing out 



25 The " white " plant. 26 " White in the middle." 



27 Identified by Fee with the Cerinthe of B. xxi. c. 41. Sprengel, how- 

 ever, considers it to be the Carduus leucographus of Linnseus. 



28 Fee identifies it with the Campanula Medium of Linuieus, our Canter- 

 bury or Coventry bells ; but this flower is blue, while the colour of the 

 Medion is purple. Littre gives the Convolvulus althseoides of Linnaeus. 

 Sibthorp has named the Campanula laciniata ; and other authorities the 

 Michauxia campanuloides. 



29 See B. xx. C: 32. 



30 " Mouse-ears." Fee identifies it with the Myosotis scorpioides of 



