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A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARF. 



Bracteos',i.sauina, sed bractea inter- 

 pretatur aurea lamina, unde bractea 

 crisea^, i. aurea lamina. 



Brancos^ interpretatur faux, inde bran- 

 5 cus *, apostema in fauce [ortus] 



de fluxu humorum a capite. 



Bragma est commissura duarum cel- 

 lularum in supremo capite, s. fan- 

 tastice et rationalis, ut in Alex- 

 lo andro. 



Blacta" est squama piscis et inuenitur 



in fronte piscis degentis in conca 



rotunda tortuosa, sed nos utimur 



blacta bisantea i. constantino opoli 



15 que sic solebat dici. 



Bedellium'' lacerinum [est] gumma 

 cuiusdam arboris que in Armenia 

 nascitur et dicitur [brissaca, viola 

 idem]. 



Bedellium sciticum^ a loco [dicitur]. 20 

 Blicus'' frigidus est et humidus, 

 comestus uentrem mollit. 



Brionia uel brion'*', scicida", cucurbita 

 agrestis, alphesora idem ; eius foha 

 assimulantur foliis uitis, gall. bri- 25 

 one uel naue sauuage, anglice 

 wildenep. [Respice in uitecella.] 



Britanni[c]a^^ herba est folia habens 

 similia lappacio agresti sed paulo 

 nigriora et lanosa. 30 



5. ortum in fauce. 8. suppremo capitis. 14. bisancia constantinopoli. 16. lacrinum. 

 20. Bdellium. 22. commestus. Brisaca viola idem. 23. succida. 25. Briena uel nauet. 



wyldenep. 28. similia habens. 



* PpaOv, Diosc. i. 104. Bart. p. 13, ' Braleos vel Bracfeos, i. savina, sed Bractheos interpretatur 

 lamina.' App. ' iJra/Afos, i. sebitia. ' ^ x/"''''*''?' ^^urea. ^ Bpoyxo^- * /Spa^xoj, 



sorethroat. Bart. p. 13, ' Brancos est prsefocacio faucium.' * Ppeypia, Alex. Aphr. Probl. 2. 



ap. .Sleph. Thes. ]\Iatth. Silv. c. cviii, ' Bragina id est commissura duarum celhilarum in summo 

 capitis ubi est virtus phantastica.' * Bart. p. 13, ' Blatta est quasi squama piscis. Et 



inuenitur in fronte piscis degentis in conca rotunda et tortuosa, sed nos utimur blanca bisancia 

 pro ea.' This has been taken for the ovv^ of Diosc. ii. 10 (see the comment of Matthiolus, 

 trans. by Pinet, Lyons 1572), though Fuchs thought otherwise (Nic. Myreps. ed. Fuchs. 1549, 

 p. 3. 1. 13). Fuchs's note is, 'ossis anterioris etc. Intelligit id quod Actuario et aliis posterioribus 

 Grjecis Blattium Byzantium et bysantis dicitur, Nam ita in ejusdem interpretationibus legitur, 

 /3\dTTtof fii^avTiov, barovv ttjs pivos TTJs nop<pvpas, etc. . . . Differt ab onyche Dioscoridis.' 

 Actuarius, de Medic. Compos. (a Latin trans.) Basle 1540, p. 88, 'Blattii Bysantis, 

 quem prisci onychem di.xere.' Ducange quotes from Actuarius, PKaTTiov Pv^avTiov, uarovv ttjs 

 fiivds TTJs Tropfvpas, probably through Fuchs. Blatta seems to be (i) the cochineal insect, 

 (2) Purple. (3) The murex. (4) Some part of the murex. '^ Diosc. i. 80, ^UWiov . . . SoKpvov 



fOTt h(v5pov dpa^iKov. App. ' Bdellium, i. gummi quod in Arabia invenitur.' * ^SfWiov 



^KvdiKuv, Galen, n. Kpaa. Kal Svv. t. airKwv (papp.. lib. vi. (Kiihn, vol. xi. p. 849). " ^XfjTov, 



Diosc. ii. 143, ^KiTov i5ujSip.6v iaTi Kaxavov, vypbv Kal \pvxpbv, Galen, de fac. simp. med. lib. 6, 

 (Kiilin, xi. 851). 10 See ante, Alphesora. App. ' Bryonia id est cucurbita agrestis.' 



" Perhaps from <tiW dypioi, Diosc. iv. 152. '- Diosc. iv. 2, PpeTavviKi) fj ^eTToviKr) 



irki (<rr\v fxovrra <bv\\a (ix<pfrf) \ana6cu aypicx), jXfi^ova Sf Koi SaavTfpa. 



