[2618] “Stone-breaking.”
[2619] Fée is of opinion that they possess no such property.
[2620] Loss of the hair.
[2621] See B. xxi. c. [65]. The Picris asplenioides of Linnæus, Fée thinks, though Sprengel identifies it with the Helminthia echioides of Linnæus; but the leaves of that plant are not round.
[2624] “Plant of the heroes.”
[2625] Mere varieties of the plant, so called with reference, probably, to the relative energy of their properties.
[2626] Regarded in a medicinal point of view the bulb of the asphodel possesses some emollient properties, and nothing more. As an application to sores and abscesses it may reduce the inflammation, and being rich in mucilage, the pulp may form a nourishing food. All the other statements as to its medicinal properties are, as Fée remarks, quite fabulous.
[2627] Theriaca, p. 39.