[1440] A kind of spider. See B. xi. cc. 24, 28, 29.
[1441] This is consistent with modern experience, as to the medicinal effects of the cultivated plants in general.
[1442] In B. xix. c. 38.
[1443] The lettuce is not a purgative, nor has it the property here ascribed to it, of making blood.
[1444] Sillig is probably correct in his belief that there is a lacuna here.
[1445] “Oxypori.”
[1446] “Ad intinctum aceti.”
[1447] In B. xix. c. 38; the “opium” or “poppy lettuce,” the Lactuca silvestris of modern botany, the soporific properties of which are superior to those of the cultivated kinds.
[1448] Or southern-wood. See B. xxi. c. [34].
[1449] See B. xxxi. cc. 11 and 12.