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A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARY: 



Asta rogia ^ uel aste regia, [gall. 

 muget,] angl. woderove. 



Asariis-, quam multi nardum agrestem 

 uocant, folia habet edere similia 

 6 tenera et rotunda, flores inter folia 



iuxta radicem purpurei coloris, uri- 

 nametmenstruaprouocat,[gariofilus 

 agrestis. Respice in asarabaccara.] 



[Asafetida, respice in asar lazarum. 

 loAsclepias^ respice in draguncia. 



Archacon, respice in Zactaron *. 



Argentilla^ orualis, hec potata ossa 

 fracta consolidat. gilb. 



Argelzarus, uiride es idem. 

 15 Argilla, respice in terra figuli. 



Arcliitrios uel in is. 



Armiar aquatica'' crescit in aquis. Si 

 teratur et ponatur plagas boum 

 consolidat eas et ideo quidam uo- 

 cant eam plaga.] 20 



Attriplex agrestis ^, crissolocanna 

 idem, ang. mielde. 



Atanasia** uel athasia tanacetum 

 idem. Hanc utuntur Salerniani^ 

 et Hispanni^" similiter. tansie, 25 

 ang. bemp". 



[Ataraxacon^'^, i. rostrum porcinum 

 secundum Gaddesden " capitulo 

 de opilacione epatis, set Avicena " 

 uocat id taraxacon.j 3 



I. haste regia. 5. tenuia 

 24. hac. Salemitani. 



21. crisolocanna. 22. milde, in a later kand. 

 25. Hyspani. gal. tanesie, an. bemerfan. 



23. atasia. 



' aaK\r]Tna'i, Diosc. iii. 96 : cf. App. 'Asepia, i. draguntea.' * That 



' Perhaps Argentina, the silver-weed or goose-tansy : called Tanacetum 



' E. P. N. p. 46, ' Hastula regia, muge de bois, wuderove.' Bart. p. 24, ' Herba muscata, i. 

 hastula regia, woderove.' For rnuge see post, sub Muscus. ^ Diosc. i. 9, dcrapov 



01 5i yapSov dypiav KaXovai, <pvWa x*' Kicrcrai 'ofioia, fnKpurepa 5e iroWo) Kal aTpoyyvXuiTepa' 

 dv6T] /xeTa^v ruv (pvXKcuv irpos ttj pl^ri noptpvpS. . , . Svvafits Se avTwv SiovprjTtK^ . . . dyovai Se 

 Kal (fxfirjva. 

 is ipvWwv. 



album (Bart. p. 41). Perhaps Armeria aquatica, thrift. ' siTpd<pa^is, 01 Si 



XpvaoXdxavov, Diosc. ii. 145. Mielde, cf. Ger. Melde, a name which Grassman (Deutsche 

 Pflanzennamen, 1870, p. 192) thinks is derived from the mealy, dusty surface of the young 

 leaves. A.y>^.' Atriplex, chrjsolocana rinoli idem est.' Bart. p. 17, ' Crisolocanna, atriple.x.' 

 * dOavaaia, whence the word tansy is said to be derived. ^ Meyer, Geschichte der 



Botanik, iii. 457, supposes that the Medical School of Salerno began about 850 A. D. and that 

 by 900 it had become famous. For further information see Renzi, Collectio Salemitana, 

 5 vols., Naples, 1852-1856. ^" That is the Arabian physicians of Spain, Cordova more 



especially, who fiourished as early as 956 a.d. (see Smith's Gibbon, vol. vi. p. 402 note). 

 " Bemer/an seems to be connected in some way with the Ger. Rain-fahn (Grassman, p. 133) : as 

 to the latter part of which word cf. E. P. N. p. 36, 'Citsihia, fana,' and p. 73, ' Cittasana, fanu : ' 

 though the plant need not be the sarae. The true word is perhaps gemerfan. '^ AI- 



taraxacon, Bart. p. 10, ' Altaraxacon, i. rostrum porcinum.* ^^ 'Joannis Anglici Praxis 



Medica, Rosa anglica dicta,' Qto. Aug. Vind. 1595, p. 371. ** Avicenna (Ven. Junta 



1608), ii. 690. Fuchs (H. S. p. 743) ' officinis nostris qux barbaris delectantur vocibus, Tara.xa- 

 con aut Altaraxacon dicitur.' Dandelion. 



