Chap. 1 15.] 
THE TEAGOKIS. 
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wards tlie ground, and divided at the point. It has a slender 
stem, half a foot in length, and not wholly destitute of 
hranches; the seed, enclosed in a crescent- shaped capsule,^ is 
similar to a lentil in shape, except that it has a jagged 
appearance, to which, in fact, it owes its name the flower is 
white, and the plant is found near footpaths and in hedges. 
The seed, which has an acrid flavour, carries off bile and 
pituitous secretions, by vomit and by alvine evacuation, the 
proper dose being one acetabulum. It is used, also, for sciatica, 
in the form of an injection, this treatment being persevered in 
until it has induced a discharge of blood : it acts also as an 
emmenagogue, but is fatal to the foetus. 
The other thlaspi, known by some as Persicon napy,"^^ has 
broad leaves and large roots, and is also very useful as an 
injection for sciatica. Both plants are very serviceable for in- 
guinal complaints ; it being recommended that the person who 
gathers them should mention that he is taking them for diseases 
of the groin, for abscesses of all kinds, and for wounds, and 
that he should pluck them with one hand only. 
CHAP. 114. THE TKACHINIA : ONE PROPEKTY. 
What sort of plant the trachinia is, the authorities do not 
state. I think that the assurance given by Democritus must 
be false : for it would be nothing less than a prodigy, for a 
plant, attached as an amulet, to consume the spleen in so short 
a time as three days. 
CHAP. 115. THE TKAGONIS OE TEAGION I FOUR REMEDIES. 
The tragonis,^^ or tragion, grows nowhere but in the mari- 
time districts of the Isle of Crete ; it resembles the juniper in 
9 " Peltaruni specie." The " pelta " was a small, light shield, of 
various forms, but most commonly, perhaps, that of a crescent. 
10 From OXa'w, " to break." 
^1 Persian mustard." The Lunaria annua of Linnasus, the Annual 
moon-wort, honesty, or satin-flower, has been suggested by Sprengel, but 
its identity is very doubtful. 
^2 This plant is unknown. A rose of this name is mentioned in B. xxi. 
c. 10. 
13 See B. xiii. c. 36. Fee suggests that it may possibly be a variety of 
the Pistacia lentiscus of Linnaeus, the Mastich-tree, or lentisk. Desfon- 
taines identifies it with the Hypericon hircinum. M. Fraas {SynopsiSj p. 
182) suggests the Origanum maru. 
