[2540] See Hippocrates, Hippiatr.
[2541] In B. xxi. c. 55.
[2542] The Lamium maculatum of Linnæus: dead nettle, or archangel. The same as the Leuce, mentioned in B. xxvii. c. 77.
[2543] “Cum micâ salis.”
[2544] The Spartium scorpius of Linnæus, or the Scorpiurus sulcata of Linnæus: scorpion-grass, or scorpion-wort.
[2545] Its properties are entirely inert, and it has no such virtues as those here mentioned. As Fée remarks, we might be quite sure, however, from the form of the seeds, that this property would be ascribed to it in the Materia Medica of the ancients.
[2546] Supposed to be the Salsola tragus of Linnæus, kali, or glass-wort.
[2547] Not the Asparagus officinalis, Fée says, but the Asparagus acutifolius, the stem of which is somewhat prickly.