"Invenit et Teucer eadem ætate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion' vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem, austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit. Medetur lienibus ... Narrantque sues qui radicem ejus ederint sine splene inveniri.
"Singultus hemionium sedat.
"'Asplenon' sunt qui hemionion vocant foliis trientalibus multis, radice limosa, cavernosa, sicut filicis, candida, hirsuta: nec caulem, nec florem, nec semen habet. Nascitur in petris parietibusque opacis, humidis."
According to Hardouin's note, p. 3777., it is the Ceterach of the shops, or rather Citrach; a great favourite of the mules, ‛ημιονοι, witness Theophrastus, Hist., ix. 19.
Ray found it "on the walls about Bristol, and the stones at St. Vincent's rock." He calls it "Spleenwort" and "Miltwaste." Catalog. Plant. p. 31. Lond. 1677.
I have a copy of Henri du Puy's "original" Comus, but do not recollect his noticing the plant.
G.M.
Guernsey.
Byron's Birthplace.—Can any of your correspondents give any information relative to the house in which Lord Byron was born? His biographers state that it was in Holles Street, but do not mention the number.
C.B.W.
Edgbaston.
[Our correspondent will find, on referring to Mr. Cunningham's Handbook of London, that "Byron was born at No. 24. Holles Street, and christened in the small parish church of St. Marylebone.">[