CHAP. 41.—CYNOGLOSSOS: THREE REMEDIES.
To this plant we may also annex an account of the cynoglossos,[685] the leaf of which resembles a dog’s tongue, and which produces so pleasing an effect[686] in ornamental gardening. The root, it is said, of the kind which bears three[687] stems surmounted with seed, is very useful, taken in water, for tertian, and of that with four stems, for quartan, fevers.
There is another plant[688] very similar to it, which bears diminutive burrs resembling those of the lappa:[689] the root of it, taken in water, is curative of wounds inflicted by frogs[690] or serpents.