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the protection of the triorchis, a kind of hawk, which attacks 
those who gather it; a circumstance to which it owes its 
name. Ignorant^^ persons are in the habit of confounding all 
these characteristics, and attributing them to the centaury 
first named. 
CHAP. 33. (7). — CLTMENirs : two remedies. 
Clymenus is a plant so called, after a certain king.*® It 
has leaves like those of ivy, numerous branches, and a hollow, 
jointed stem. The smell of it is powerful, and the seed like 
that of ivy : it grows in wild and mountainous localities. 
We shall have to state hereafter, of what maladies it is curative, 
taken in drink, but it is as well to take the present opportunity 
of remarking that, while effecting a cure, in the male sex it 
neutralizes the generative powers. 
The Greeks speak*^ of this plant as being similar to the 
plantago in appearance, with u square stem, and a seed in 
capsules, interlaced like the arms of the polypus. The juice 
of this plant, too, is used, being possessed of refreshing pro* 
perties in a very high degree. 
CHAP. 34. — gentian; thirteen remedies. 
Gentian*^ was first discovered by Gentius, king of Illyria. 
It is a plant to be found everywhere,*^ but that of Illyria is 
the finest. It has a leaf like that of the ash,** but equal in 
size to a lettuce-leaf : the stem is tender, about the thickness 
of the thumb, hollow and empty, and covered with leaves at 
regular intervals. This stem is sometimes three cubits in 
length, and the root is flexible, swarthy,*^ and inodorous. It 
is found in the greatest abundance in humid localities at the 
foot of the Alps. The root and juice are the parts of it 
that are used ; the root is possessed of certain warming pro- 
Pliny himself is one of the " imperiti " here. 
Son of Cseneus, and king of Arcadia. The plant is identified with 
the Lonicera periclymenum of Linnaeus, our Woodbine or Honeysuckle. 
Sibthorp identifies the Clymenura of Dioscorides with the Convolvulus 
sepium of Linnaeus, and Sprengel with the Lathyrus clymenura of Linnaeus. 
Possibly the Clymenum of Dioscorides, mentioned in the preceding 
Note. Littre names the Calendula arvensis, the Field marigold. 
'^'^ The Gentiana lutea of Linnceus. 
'^^ This, Fee remarks, is not the fact. 
This comparison is inexact. It is not swarthy. 
