[1262] Identified by Fée with the Hypericum perforatum of Linnæus, the Perforated St. John’s wort. Littré gives the Hypericum crispum of Linnæus.
[1263] “Oleraceo.” Another reading is “surculaceo,” “tough and ligneous;” and is, perhaps, preferable.
[1264] “Coris” is the old and more common reading, Fée identifies it with the Hypericum coris of Linnæus, and Brotero with the H. saxatile of Tournefort. Desfontaines gives as its synonym the Coris Monspelliensis.
[1265] See B. xxiv. c. 41.
[1266] It is not improbable, supposing the “tamarix” to be one of the Ericæ, that to this circumstance it may owe its name. Indeed Dioscorides has ἐρείκη, in the corresponding passage.
[1267] “Pinguioribus.”
[1268] Dioscorides gives the stem larger dimensions.
[1269] See B. xxii. c. 30, and B. xxv. c. 86.
[1270] This plant has not been identified. Anguillara says that it is the same as the “repressa,” a plant given to horses by the people at Rome, when suffering from dysuria. What this plant is, no one seems to know.
[1271] See B. xxi. c. 30.