[2338] See c. [34] of this Book. Both of the plants mentioned share the medicinal properties of wormwood, being stimulants, tonics, anthelmintics, and febrifuges. It would be dangerous, however, Fée says, to administer them in most of the cases mentioned by Pliny, nor would they be good for strangury, or affections of the chest.
[2339] “Nervis.” Pliny had no knowledge, probably, of the nervous system; but Fée seems to think that such is his meaning here. See B. xi. c. 88.
[2340] See B. xi. cc. 24, 28, and 29.
[2341] See c. [34] of this Book; also B. xxii. c. [26].
[2342] See c. [35] of this Book.
[2343] In c. 38 of this Book.
[2344] The Anemone coronaria of Linnæus, Fée thinks.
[2345] Probably the Adonis æstivalis of Linnæus, a ranunculus. These plants are of an acrid, irritating nature, and rank at the present day among the vegetable poisons.
[2346] The “wind-flower,” from the Greek ἄνεμος, “wind.”
[2347] See B. xxv. c. 26.