[552] In their pictures, mentioned in c. 4.
[553] Ovid, Galen, and Theophrastus, say the same.
[554] There must either be some error in the reading here, or the physician must have attempted to impose upon our author’s credulity.
[555] Or “the twelve gods.”
[556] Generally identified with the Primula vulgaris or officinalis of Linnæus. Its leaves, however, are of varying number, and not like those of the lettuce. The Dodecatheos Meadia, or Virginian cowslip, it must be remembered, is an American plant.
[557] The Pæonia officinalis of Linnæus, our Peony.
[558] Pæon, the physician, mentioned in the Iliad, B. v. l. 401. as healing Pluto, when wounded by Hercules.
[559] From its five seeds, which resemble fitches.
[560] “Sweet to the view,” apparently.
[561] See B. xxiii. c. 76.