PLANTS OF GREECE. 



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93. Viola Odorata, called tov pixav in Laconia. A syrup is drawn 

 from the flower. It is an ' admired plant of the poets ; hence the 

 following distich. 



N« crcv roc /3aA«, f^arta l uov i eig Tctig (lXay.o^a,occiq, 



" Hyacinths, violets, musk-roses and lemon flowers, I throw on 

 my love to remove the marks of your small-pox." 



(The first word is indistinct in the manuscript. BXxxo parous is 

 not found in Du Cange, but in Sommavera. — E.) 



94. Aristolochia Longa, is a much esteemed medicine in the 

 Rachitis, in intermittents and other fevers. The roots for this 

 purpose are exported to Venice and Italy. As a medicine also to 

 puerperous women its medical powers are so great that it is considered 

 as a specific, and called by the Zantiotes, 



95. Scilla Maritima abounds in the island of Zante ; it is an 

 object of commerce, and is exported to Holland and England. A 

 sequin for a 1000 roots is paid for collecting them. It is called 

 ct&iuKka. at Constantinople ; and is made into paste with honey for 



' the asthma, or applied in cataplasms to the joints affected with 

 rheumatic pains. 



96. Asparagus Acutifolius, rTrxpuyyovvicc. The shoots appear in Febru- 

 ary, and continue until May; they are eaten boiled with oil and vinegar. 

 In Cyprus it is called ocg-t: ■x.pc&yoc, the ancient name in Dioscorides. 



97. Spartium Spinosum, d<npu.\a.KTos i one of the earliest flowering 

 shrubs, and the prodromus of the spring. Spartium Villosum in 

 Cyprus still retains its ancient name somewhat corrupted, aWAa#os-, 

 the dcnrctkoSoq of Dioscorides. 



98. Fumaria Officinalis xa^vm ; the herb is pounded, and an 

 infusion is made which is taken for exanthematous complaints, and a 

 prurient itching of the skin. 



99. Mercurialis Annua, -nufavovSi, taken in infusion with Agrimonia 



Notes by the Editor. 



99. Called also a-xupo\ux civov ( see ^ u ^" m v * noipQevovh) from the reason assigned by 

 Dr. Sibthorp. , 



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