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similar in appearance to the black poppy, and possessed of 
greater virtues than the first. They are both, however, of a 
warming nature, for which reason they are administered to 
persons who have taken hemlock, a poison for which frankin- 
cense and panaces are used, chironion^^ in particular. This 
last, too, is given in cases of poisoning by fungi. 
CHAP. 83. (11.) EEMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE HEAD. 
NYMPH^A HERACLIA : TWO EEMEDIES. 
Eut we shall now proceed to point out the various classes 
of remedies for the , several parts of the body, and the maladies 
to which those parts are subject, beginning in the first place 
with the head. 
The root of nymphsea heraclia effects the cure of alope.cy, 
if they are beaten up together, and applied. The polythrix^* 
differs from the callitrichos^''' in having white, rushlike suckers, 
larger leaves, and more numerous ; the main stem,^^ too, is 
larger. This plant strengthens the hair, prevents it from 
falling off, and makes it grow more thickly. 
CHAP. 84. THE LINGULACA *. ONE REMEDY. 
The same is the case too with the lingulaca,^^ a plant that 
grows in the vicinity of springs, and the root of which is 
reduced to ashes, and beaten up with hog's lard. Due care, 
must be taken, however, that it is the lard of a female, of a 
black colour, and one that has never farrowed. The application 
is rendered additionally efficacious, if the ointment is applied in 
the sun. E,oot, too, of cyclaminos is employed in the same 
c. 41, the same, in his opinion, with the Narcissus jonquilla. the Emetic jon- 
quil. Sprengel, however, would identify the Bulbus vomitorius with either 
the Narcissus orientalis or the Pancratium Illyricum ; and Sibthorp con- 
siders its synonym to be the Ornithogalum stachyoides of Aiton. Littre 
gives the Muscari comosum. 
13 See c. 13 of this Book. 
1^ See c. 37 of this Book, and B. xxvi. c. 28. 
1^ There seems to be an hiatus here. From the words of Dioscorides, 
B. iii. e. 138, it would appear that pitch was the other ingredient, to be 
beaten up with the plant. 
The same as the Polytrichos of B. xxii. c. 30. 
In B. xxii. c. 30, he makes them to be the same plant, and it is most 
probable that they may be both referred to the Asplenium trichomanes of 
Linnasus. i^ Frutice," 
i» See B. xxiv. c. 108. 
