[1610] Or Wild Marjoram. See B. xix. c. [50].
[1611] So called, Nicander says, from being sought with avidity by the ass, ὄνος. It is the Origanum onites of Linnæus.
[1612] The Prasion, or “green plant,” mentioned by Hippocrates and Theophrastus, is not identical, Fée says, with the Origanum onitis, it being the Marrubium Creticum, or peregrinum of modern botanists. To add to the confusion of these names, we find Pliny stating, in c. 69, that the name of “prasion” was given also by the Greeks to his second species of Heraclium, and that of “onitis” to the Heraclium Heracleoticum.
[1613] Or “Goat’s origanum:” the Thymus tragoriganum of Linnæus. Dioscorides mentions two kinds of tragoriganum, one of which has been supposed by Clusius to be the Thymus mastichina of Linnæus, and the other the Stachys glutinosa of Linnæus; Zanoni being the first author who promulgated this opinion; from which Fée, however, dissents.
[1614] Or Heracleotic origanum: see c. [62] of this Book. Pliny here confounds several distinct plants, and, as Fée observes, the whole account is in hopeless confusion.
[1615] Probably the Origanum Heracleoticum of Linnæus, mentioned in c. 62.
[1616] The Marrubium Creticum, or peregrinum, probably, a variety of horehound. See c. [67].
[1617] See B. xiii. c. 2, and B. xv. c. 7.
[1618] The Origanum onites of Linnæus, probably. See c. [67].
[1619] Fée says that a strong infusion of pepperwort has been used in France for the itch, with successful results.