[692] “Steatomata.” Tumours of a fatty nature.
[693] Generally agreed to be identical with the Glycyrrhiza of B. xxii. c. 2, our Liquorice. Fée says that the G. asperrima grows in great abundance on the banks of the river Volga.
[694] See B. xxvii. c. 1.
[695] Liquorice certainly palls the appetite, but it is very apt to create thirst.
[696] In copying from the Greek, Pliny has mistaken “hippace,” a cheese made from mare’s milk, for a plant! It is very likely, however, that it would tend, like any other cheese, to appease hunger, though, probably, not thirst.
[697] He has probably invented this reason himself, as it is hardly probable that the Scythians would feed their horses with cheese, even though made from mare’s milk.
[698] Sprengel identifies it with the Andropogon ischæmon of Linnæus, the Woolly andropogon. Fée expresses his doubts as to its identification. It derives its name “ischæmon,” from its property of stanching blood.
[699] To arrest epistaxis or bleeding at the nose.
[700] The Betonica alopecuros of Linnæus, the Fox-tail betony.
[701] The “little saw.”