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which they said they received from them.”—Lemery’s “ Treatise 
on Foods? 1.704; p73. 
41. 4. ‘‘ Citrons,” according to Lyte, p. 704, will cure “‘tremblynge 
of the hart and pensiue heavinesse, wamblynges, vomitinges, and 
lothsomnesse of the stomache.” The citron was probably intro- 
duced into Europe with the orange by the Arab conquerors of 
Spain, and first received in England from that country. By a MS. 
in the Tower it appears that in 1290, 18 Edw. I., alarge Spanish ship 
came to Portsmouth, and that from her cargo Queen Eleanor pur- 
chased Seville figs, dates, pomegranates, 15 Cz/rons, and 7 poma de 
orenge.—Way in Prompt. Parv. 
42. 1. “The garden Basill is called in English Baszl/ Royall or 
Basill gentle, and the smaller kinde is called Bushse (sic) Bast/l. 
The herbe brused with vineger and holden to the nose of suche as 
are faynt and fallez into a sound bringeth them againe to them- 
selues, and the seede therof giuez to be smelled upow causeth the 
sternutation or niesing.”——Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 241. ‘‘ One thing I 
read in Hollerius (Lib. i. cap. i.) of Basill, which is wonderfull. 
‘A certaine Italian, by often smelling to Basill, had a scorpion 
bred in his braine, and after vehement and long paines he died 
thereof.’””—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 50. See also 51. 34. 
42. 4. “Costmary, L. Costus amarus, Fr. coste amere, misunder- 
stood as Costus Marie, an error that has very naturally arisen from 
this plant having been dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, and 
called after her, AZaudlin, either in allusion to her box of scented 
ointment, or to its use in the uterine affections over which she 
presided. In old authors it occurs as Herba sancte or dive Marie.” 
—Dr. R. Prior, Popular Names of Brit. Plants. Called also Alecost 
from its having formerly been esteemed an agreeable aromatic 
bitter, and much vsed for flavouring ale: “If you list to make a 
pleasant drinke, and comfortable to the stomache, put certaine 
handfuls of this herbe in the bottome of a vesselle, and tunne up 
new Ale vpon it.”—Cogan, Haven of Health, ch. 69. 
a5. *° Pageles,”” spelt) also: (Pdigle; /Pagle,| Pagel) -Peasile: 
Pegyll and Pygil, a name now confined to the Eastern Counties, 
and generally assigned to the Cowslip, but by Ray and Moor to 
the Ranunculus bulbosus. The derivation is uncertain. “ Blake 
(yellow) as a paigle.’—Ray. In Suffolk the name is applied to the 
Crowfoot, the Cuckoo-flower. 
42. 8. “Our common germander or thistle benet is found and 
knowne to bee so wholesome and of so great power in medicine, as 
anie other hearbe, if they be vsed accordinglie.”—Harrison, Descript. 
of Eng., ed. Furnivall, pt.i.p. 326. ‘‘The iuyce of the leaues mengled 
with oyle, and straked vpon the eyes, driueth away the white cloude, 
called the Hawe or Pearle in the eye, and all manner dimness of 
the same.”—Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 25. 
42. 12. “That which is commonly called Sothernewood is the 
