[1590] In B. xiii. c. 44.
[1591] It is not improbable that under this name he alludes to the carpels of some kind of Euphorbiacea, which bear a resemblance to the fruit of the caper. Indeed, there is one variety of the Euphorbia with an acrid juice, known in this country by the name of the “caper-plant.”
[1592] The Capparis spinosa, probably, on which the capers used in our sauces are grown.
[1593] Until recently, the bark was employed in the Materia Medica, as a diuretic: it is now no longer used.
[1594] Or Lovage. See B. xix. c. [50].
[1595] In B. xix. c. 50, where he states that Crateuas has given to the wild Ligusticum the name of Cunila bubula, or “ox cunila.”
[1597] See B. viii. cc. 41 and 44.
[1598] Universal remedy, or “all-heal.”
[1599] Or “Poultry cunila:” the Origanum Heracleoticum of Linnæus.