ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IX. xi. IO-XIL i 



Of the two herbs called libanotis. 



1 Of the plants called libanotis , (for there are two) 

 one is barren, the other fruitful, the latter having 

 both fruit and leaves that are serviceable, the former 

 only a serviceable root. The fruit is called kakhry. 2 

 This plant has a leaf like marsh celery, but much 

 larger, a stem a cubit long or more, a large stout 

 white root, which smells like frankincense, and a 

 white rough elongated fruit. It grows chiefly wherever 

 there is parched and rocky soil ; the root is serviceable 

 for sores, and for diseases of women when given in a 

 draught of dry black w r ine. The fruit is good for 

 strangury, for the ears, for ulcers 3 on the eye, for 

 ophthalmia and for producing milk in women. 



The barren kind has a leaf like that of the bitter 

 lettuce, but rougher and paler ; the root is short. It 

 grows where there is abundance of heather. 4 The 

 root can purge both upwards and downwards, the 

 upper part being used for the former, that nearer 

 the ground for the latter purpose. Also, if it is put 

 among clothes, it prevents moth. It is gathered at 

 the time of wheat-harvest. 



Of the tivo kinds of chamaeleon. 



XII. 5 Of chamaeleon there is the white kind and 

 the dark ; the properties of the roots are different, 

 and the roots also differ 6 in appearance. In the one 

 case the root is white stout and sweet, and it has a 

 heavy smell ; they say that when cooked it is 

 serviceable against flux ; it is chopped up like 



5 Diosc. 3. 8 ; Plin. 22. 45 and 46, who explains the name 

 (tnutat cnm terra colores). See Index. 



6 Smtpepovtrat conj. W. ; Sio^e'pet U; fiiatyfpovcri 8e M; Stdtyopov 

 Aid. 



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