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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, 3 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. 111. THE TRICHOMANES : FIVE REMEDIES. 



The trichomanes 4 is a plant that resembles the adiantum, 5 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 THALICTRUM : ONE REMEDY. 



The thalictrura 6 has leaves like those of coriander, only 

 somewhat more unctuous, and a stem resembling that of the 

 poppy. 7 It is found growing everywhere, in champaign locali- 

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

 ulcers. 



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



Of thlaspi there are two kinds ; the first 8 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." 



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



5 See B. xxii. c. 30. 



6 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. 



7 In its colour. 



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

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

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

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



