[842] Or “meagrim.”
[843] Identified with the Plantago Psyllium of Linnæus, our Fleawort Fleaseed, or Fleabane.
[844] Nothing, Fée says, can be more absurd than this description of the plant.
[845] Whence its name “cynoïdes” and “cynomyia.”
[846] This plant has not been identified; Wild water-parsley, perhaps a kind of Sium, has been suggested.
[847] All the plants here mentioned are of a more or less irritating nature, and would greatly imperil the sight.
[848] See c. 50 of this Book.
[849] See c. 11 of this Book.
[850] See B. xviii. c. 14, and B. xxii. c. 59.
[851] “Collyriis.”