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superficiem terre adherente.” Pliny (lib. xxv. c. 13) says that it 
takes its name from causing the eyes to water when applied to 
them, as smoke does ; 
“Take youre laxatives 
Of lauriol, centaure, and /umytere.”— 
Chaucer, Nonnes Prestes Tale, 143. 
See Burton’s Anat. of Melancholy, pp, 432-3 and 438, ed. 1845. 
44. 17. “Woodrofe,” spelt according to an old distich thus: 
“‘ Double U, double O, double D, E, 
R, O, double U, double F, E.” 
It derives its name originally from the Fr. vove=a wheel, dimin. 
rouelle, the leaves being set on the stems so as to resemble the 
large vowels of ancient spurs. 
45. 2. “Archangel.” This is Avchangelica officinalts, the stalks of 
which “were formerly blanched and eaten as Celeri..... The 
gardeners near London, who have ditches of water running through 
their gardens, propagate great quantities of this plant, for which 
they have a great demand from the confectioners, who make a 
sweetmeat with the tender stalks of it cut in May.”—Martyn’s ed. 
of Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary. It is still sometimes grown in 
gardens for use in the above-mentioned manner. According to 
Cogan (Haven of Health, p. 71), it will cure the bite of a mad dog. 
45. 6. According to Cogan “‘ Cummin” was extensively used for 
washing the face, it having the effect, if not used too often, of 
making the complexion clear ; if used to excess, it caused paleness. 
He continues, “ In Matthiolus (lib. 3, cap. 60) I reade a practise to 
be wrought with Cummine seedes, and (as I thinke) hath been vsed 
in time past of Monkes and Friers. They that counterfait holinesse 
and leannesse of bodie, doe often vse Cummine seedes in their 
meates, and be perfumed therewith.” —Haven of Health, p. 47. 
45. 8. “ Detanie.” Dittany (Oviganum onites, Linn.) was com- 
monly cultivated in gardens at this period. Gerard, p. 795, says 
it is ‘‘a hot and sharpe hearbe,” and speaks of it as biting the 
tongue. 
45. 9. Gromell, Grummel, or Gray myle, as Turner says it should 
be written, from granum solis and milium solis together. ‘‘ That is 
al one,” says the Grete Herbal, ‘‘ granum solis and milium solts.” 
The common gromwell or gray millet, Lzthospermum officinale, Linn., 
was formerly esteemed as a remedy for the stone and other diseases. 
In a treatise on the virtues of plants, written in the 15th century, 
Roy. MS. 18 A. vi. f. 766, the following description is given: 
“< Granum solis ys an herbe pat me clepyp grome/, or lypewale: thys 
herbe hap leuys pat be euelong, and a lytyl white flour, and he hap 
whyte seede ischape as a ston that me clepyp margery perl.” 
Cotgrave gives ‘“‘Gremil, grenil, the hearb gromill, grummell, or 
graymill, peare-plant, lichewall.” The word is derived by Skinner 
“@ granis sc. lapideis, que pro seminibus habet, g.d. granile.”—Way, 
