ASTER-CHARACTERS IN MACER 213 
vor, eat, seen in the rare ante-classical drocchus, tusky, or with 
projecting teeth. Barocho was doubtless a Magna Graecian folk- 
name, but if of ancient Greek lineage it seems to have no kin- 
dred in Greece proper unless it be the folk-name vocca, joxxa, cur- 
rently used now in Greece, for ‘‘some kind of sweet-scented grass ”’ 
(Attica). 
In Harpestreng’s expansion of Macer, Barrocus appears as 
Marochus, and with a Danish name Myothyrt, translated by 
Meyer 3: 538 as Honigkraut; the usual German for this Melissa 
being Biensauge. Harpestreng’s mixing Barochus and Melisso- 
phyllon into Marochus was followed by a greater mixture in the 
lines of his description, which begins with Macer’s 50, Barrocus, 
and presently continues with his 54, Co/ubrina, our Arum. 
ALLIED OR ConTRASTED PLANTS MENTIONED BY MACER 
5. Plantago, recommended for mad-dog’s bite, tumors, the 
eyes, etc.; cf. supra, Aster uses, p. 45; p. 172, etc. 
20. Lactuca, for the stomach, for intestinal indigestion, to se- 
cure sleep, to quiet a troubled sleep, for films over the eyes; cf. 
Aster uses, p. 55, etc. 
26. Ostrutium, the Astricium, Astritium, Ostricium, etc., of 
various MS., but having only a superficial connection with Aster, 
Astericum, etc. Macer’s first line is 
Struthion, Ostrutium quod vulgi more vecatur ; 
Macer’s plant has properties in part like Artemisia; he says it ‘‘is 
Source of a sternutatory powder’’; ‘its root with wine is a remedy 
for the hard tumor of the spleen which the Greek call sclirosts.” 
Choulant doubts whether the plant is Saponaria officinalis L. of 
‘mperatoria ostrutium L.; the latter being generally accepted here, 
and apparently intended by Dioscorides’ original, ezpod@cov. Har- 
Pestreng names it in Danish os/ris. 
44. Enula = Inula Helenium L.; see p. 61. A decoction of 
“its root drives sciasis from the hips”; so its relative Aster was 
Said by Pliny to cure his coxendicis dolor, i. e., sciatica. 
46. Asarum (= Asarum Europaeum L.) “ sciasim fugat.” 
52. Chelidonia (= Chelidonium majus L.) the Celidoniae of 
