[1892] See B. xxv. c. 10.
[1893] Or, as Holland says, would “be ready to job out their eyes.”
[1894] In reality, the peony has no medicinal virtues whatever.
[1895] “Suppressionibus nocturnis”.
[1896] Sprengel identifies it with the Santolina maritima, Sea cudwort or cotton-weed. Fée considers its identification as doubtful.
[1897] Identified by Hardouin and Desfontaines with the Dipsacus pilosus of Linnæus, the Shepherd’s rod, or small white teasel. Fée is doubtful on the subject
[1898] See B. xxii. c. 18.
[1899] See B. xxv. c. 28.
[1900] Identified with the Hordeum murinum of Linnæus, and the same, most probably, as the Mouse barley of B. xxii. c. 65.
[1901] Whence its name, from the Greek ἕλκω, “to draw.”