Chap. 74.] 
THE PHLOMIS. 
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CHAP. 71. (10.) EBULUM : SIX REMEDIES. 
A fumigation, too, of ebulum,^ a plant known to every one, 
will put serpents to flight. 
CHAP. 72. — polemonia: one eemedt. 
The root of polemonia,^^ even worn as an amulet only, is 
particularly useful for repelling the attacks of scorpions, as also 
the phalangium and other small insects of a venomous nature. 
For injuries inflicted by the scorpion, aristolochia®^ is also used, 
or agaric, in doses of four oboli to four cyathi of wine. Por 
the bite of the phalangium, vervain is employed, in combina- 
tion with wine or oxy crate : cinquefoil, too, and daucus, are 
used for a similar purpose. 
CHAP. 73. PHLOMOS OR VERBASCUM : FIFTEEN" REMEDIES. 
Yerbascum has the name of '^phlomos" with the Greeks. 
Of this plant there are two principal kinds; the white, which 
is considered to be the male, and the black, thought to be the 
female. There is a third^^ kind, also, which is only found in 
the woods. The leaves of these plants are larger than those of 
the cabbage, and have a hairy surface : the stem is upright, and 
more than a cubit in height, and the seed black, and never 
used. The root is single, and about the thickness of the finger. 
The two principal kinds are found growing m champaign locali- 
ties. The wild verbascum has leaves like those of elelisphacus,^^ 
but of an elongated form ; the branches are ligneous. 
CHAP. 74. THE PHLOMIS : ONE REMEDY. THE LYCHNITIS OR 
THRYALLIS. 
There are also two®^ varieties of the phlomis, hairy plants, 
^ Or Wall-wort. See B. xxiv. c. 35. aud B. xxvi. c. 49. 
8^ See c. 28 of this Book. 82 gge c. 54 of this Book. * 
^3 Identified by Fee with the Verbascum thapsus of Linnaeus, Great 
mullein, High-taper, or Cow's lung-wort. 
8* Identified by Fee with the Verbascum sinuatum of Linnaeus. Des- 
fontaines considers this to be the male plant of Piiny, and the V. thapsus 
to be the female. 
Fee considers this to be the same as the Blattaria mentioned in c. 60, 
and identifies it with the Verbascum phlomoides of Linnaeus. Sprengel 
and Desfontaines consider it to be the Phlomis lychnitis of Linnaeus. Littre 
gives the Phlomis fruticosa of Linnaeus, the Jerusalem sage, or Tree sage. 
■^^ See B. xxii. c 7L 
^' Fee identifies these two kinds with the Phlomis fruticosa of Linnaeus ; 
