Chap. 102.] 
THB GEEATEK AIZOUAT. 
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Crete ; but it is in Colchis, on the banks of the river Phasis, 
and in various other watery localities, that they are found in 
the greatest abundance. When fresh, they have a more 
powerful odour than when kept for some time : these of Crete 
are more blanched than the produce of Pontus. They are cut 
into pieces about a finger in length, and dried in leather bags^** 
in the shade. 
There are some authors who give the name of acoron'^ to 
the root of the oxymyrsine for which reason also some prefer 
giving that plant the name of " acorion." It has powerful pro- 
perties as a calorific and resolvent, and is taken in drink for 
cataract and films upon the eyes; the juice also is extracted, 
and taken for injuries inflicted by serpents. 
CHAP. 101. THE COTYLEDON : TWO VAKIETIES OF IT : SIXTY- ONE 
EEMEDIES. 
The cotyledon^^ is a small herbaceous plant, with a diminu- 
tive, tender stem, and an unctuous leaf, with a concave surface 
like that of the cotyloid cavity of the thigh. It grows in 
maritime and rocky localities, is of a green colour, and has a 
rounded root like an olive : the juice of it is remedial for 
diseases of the eyes. 
There is another^^ kind also of the same plant, the leaves of 
which are of a dirty green®* colour, larger than those of the 
other, and growing in greater numbers about the root, which 
is surrounded with them just as the eye is with the socket. 
These leaves have a remarkably astringent taste, and the stem 
is of considerable length, but extremely slender. This plant 
is employed for the same purposes as the iris and aizoiim. 
CHAP. 102. THE GEEATER AIZOTTM, ALSO CALLED BUPH.THALMOS, 
ZOOPHTHALMOS, STEEGETHRON, HYPOGESON, AMBEOSIOX, AME- 
ElMNON, SEDITM MAGKUM, OE DIGITELLTTS : THIETY-SIX REME- 
DIES. THE SMALLEE AIZOUM, ALSO CALLED EEITHALES, TEI- 
THALES, CHEYSOTHALES, ISOETES OE SEDUM : THIETY-TWO 
EEMEDIES. 
Of the plant known as aizoiim®** there are two kinds; the 
90 *'Utribiis." 91 See B. xv. c. 7. 
92 Identified with the Cotyledon umbilicus of Smith, Flor. Brit., Kavel- 
wort, Kidney-wort, or Wall penny- wort. 
93 Identified by Littre with the Saxifraga media of Goiian ; and by Fes 
with the Cotyledon serrata of Linnseus, Saw- toothed navel-woit. 
9* '-Sordidis." ^< Always living." 
