[582] See B. xviii. c. 22, and B. xxii. c. 75. The Hyoscyamus aureus of Linnaæus, golden henbane.
[583] The Hyoscyamus albus of Linnæus, white henbane.
[584] The third kind mentioned above.
[585] In B. xv. c. 7, and B. xxiii. c. 49. This cannot have been a fixed oil.
[586] The Mercuralis annua of Linnæus, male and female; the herb mercury.
[587] “Herb of Hermes.”
[588] The male, as Fée suggests, bears no seed at all.
[589] A mere absurdity, of course.
[590] De Nat. Mul. and De Morb. Mul. B. i. and B. ii.
[591] The medicinal properties of the Mercurialis are not by any means energetic, but it is still used, Fée says, as a gentle aperient.