CHAP. 60.—THE BLATTARIA: ONE REMEDY.
There is a plant very similar in appearance to verbascum,[764] so much so, indeed, as to be frequently gathered for it by mistake. The leaves,[765] however, are not so white, the stems are more numerous, and the flower is of a yellow colour. Thrown upon the ground, this plant attracts black beetles[766] to it, whence its Roman appellation “blattaria.”