[322] I.e. the choice part of it; see B. xii. c. 15. Catechu is adulterated at the present day with starch and argillaceous earths. As a medicament it is not possessed of a very powerful action.
[323] “Clavos.”
[324] This statement is quite correct.
[325] See B. xiii. c. 20.
[326] The Penæa sarcocolla is not a thorny tree.
[327] Fée says that this is not the case. It is no longer used in medicine.
[328] Or conserve of fruits. An electuary.
[329] Seed of the sumach. See B. xiii. c. 13.
[330] “Ground oak.” See B. xiv. c. 19; where it is identified with the Teucrium chamædrys of Linnæus. Littré, however, informs us, that M. Fraäs considers it to be the Teucrium lucidum of Linnæus; because, as we learn from Dioscorides, it grows on rocky places, is a remarkably diminutive shrub, and has a fine odour, all of which are characteristics of the latter plant, and not of the Teucrium chamædrys, commonly known as the dwarf oak or germander.
[331] An invention attributed to Dædalus, in B. vii. c. 57.