Chap. 80.] 
THE MTOSOTA. 
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name^^ from the circumstance that a white line runs through 
the middle of the leaf ; for which reason also, some give it the 
name of mesoleucon."^^ The juice of this plant is curative of 
fistula, and the plant itself, bruised, is good for carcinomata. 
It is probably the same plant as that called leucas," so 
remarkably efficacious for the venom of all kinds of marine 
animals. Authors have not given a description of it, beyond 
telling us that the wild leucas has larger leaves than the other, 
and has properties more strongly developed : they state also 
that the seed of the cultivated kind is the more acrid of the 
two. 
CHAP. 78. THE LEUCOGRAPHIS : FIVE EEMEDIES. 
I have not found a description given by any writer of the 
leucographis a thing I am the more surprised at, as they tell 
us that it is good for the cure of -spitting of blood, taken in 
doses of three oboli with salfron ; as also that it is useful for 
coeliac affections, applied beaten up in water, and in cases of 
excessive menstruation. They state also that it enters into 
the composition of ophthalmic preparations, and that it fills up 
ulcers on the more tender parts of the body with new flesh. 
CHAP. 79. (12.) — themedion: theee kemedies. 
The medion-^ has leaves like those of the cultivated seris,^^ 
a stem three feet in length, and a large, round, purple flower, 
at its extremity. The seed is diminutive, and the root half a 
foot in length : it grows upon umbrageous, sheltered rocks. 
The root, taken in doses of two drachmae with honey, arrests 
the catamenia, the electuary being used for some days. The 
seed, too, is administered in wine for a similar purpose. 
CHAP. 80. THE MYOSOTA OR MYOSOTIS : THREE REMEDIES. 
The myosota^^ or myosotis is a smooth plant, throwing out 
25 The "white" plant. 26 « White in the middle.'' 
27 Identified by Fee with the Cerinthe of B. xxi. c. 41. Sprengei, how- 
ever, considers it to he the Carduus leucographus of Linnaeus. 
Fee identifies it with the Campanula Medium of Linnoeus, our Canter- 
bury or Coventry bells ; but this flower is blue, while the colour of the 
Medion is purple. Littre gives the Convolvulus althteoides of Linnaeus. 
Sibthorp has named the Campanula laciniata ; and other authorities the 
Michauxia campanuloides. 
29 See B. XX. c: 32. 
3« " Mouse-ears. Fee identiiles it with the Myosotis scorpioides of 
