[562] He means nightmare.
[563] See B. x. cc. 18, 20, and B. xxvii. c. [60].
[564] The Greek for “all-healing.”
[565] Probably the Laserpitium hirsutum of Lamarck. The Echinophora tenuifolia of Linnæus, the thin-leaved prickly parsnip, has also been named.
[566] Or “All-heal.”
[567] In B. xii. c. 57
[568] In B. xii. c. 57.
[569] Identified with the Laserpitium Chironium of Linnæus, otherwise called Pastinaca opopanax. Fée observes, that when the word ‘Panaces’ is used alone, this plant is always the one meant.
[570] In B. xx. cc. 62, 69.
[571] The Centaur Chiron; see B. vii. c. 57. Sprengel identifies this plant with the Hypericum origanifolium of Willdenow, but Fée is inclined to think that its synonym is still unknown. M. Fraäs, in his Synopsis, p. 139, identifies it with the Hypericum Olympicum, an odoriferous plant, which the H. organifolium is not.