PLIXY : NATURAL HISTORY 



que necantur albo trito et cum lacte sparso. eodem 

 et phthiriasis emendatur. 



62 XX^ I. Ipsi Mithridati Crateuas adscripsit unam, 

 mithridatiam vocatam (huic folia duo a radice 

 acantho similia, caulis inter utraque sustinens 



63 roseum florem). XXVII. alteram Lenaeus, scordo- 

 tim sive scordion, ipsius manu descriptam,^ magnitu- 

 dine cubitali, quadriangulo caule, ramosam, quei-na 

 simihtudine foHis lanuginosis. reperitur in Ponto, 

 campis pinguibus umidisque, gustus amari. est et 

 alterius generis, latioribus foliis, mentastro simihs, 

 plurimosque utraque ad usus per se et inter aUa in 

 antidotis. 



64 XXVIII. Polemoniam ahi philetaeriam ab certa- 

 mine regum inventionis appellant, Cappadoces 

 autem chihodynamiam, radice crassa, exihbus ramis 

 quibus in summis corymbi dependent, nigro semine, 

 cetero rutae simihs, nascitur in montosis. 



65 XXIX. Eupatoria quoque regiam auctoritatem 

 habet, cauhs hgnosi, nigricantis, hirsuti, cubitahs et 

 ahquando amphoris, fohis per intervalla quinque- 

 fohi aut cannabis per extremitates incisis quinque- 

 pertito, nigris et ipsis plumosisque, radice super- 



1 descriptam Caesarii editio et Basileensis editio : adscriptam 

 codd., edd. 



" The old reading descriptam, althoiigh found in no MS. 

 and in no modern edition, is probably right ; adscriptam 

 might easily have been wTitten by a scribe who had just 

 written adscripsit, although the mistake may have been made 

 by Pliny's amanuensis. Another possible solution is that 

 adscripfam has displaced an entirely different word, such as 

 depictam or colleciam. 



* Polemon, King of Pontus, and Philetaerus, King of 

 Cappadocia. 



