Alphita : a medico-botanical glossary from the Bodleian manuscript, Selden B.35 / edited by J.L.G. Mowat.

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1887
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    Cerusa^ i. album plumbum uel flos plumbi siue gerse^ appellatur, [Respice in prosmeticum^.] [Cauda pulli crescit in aquis. angl. 5 padpipe*. Cauda equina, cauda caballina idem est. angl. schauegres^. Respice in hircina.] Celia^ i. ceruisia calefacta. 10 Cenapium'', gall. ceneue^ angl. war- ich^ uel mostard. Celsus'% morus maior idem. Celsa^^ quam multi sicaminum dicunt uel mora, arbor est cuius fructus cache stomachus est et uentrisi5 fluu, i. solulorium. Centaurea minor^^ quam multi limp-; nesiam dicunt, fel terre idem, unum habet stipitem erectum, in campis crescit, florem^^ habet in- 20 dum ad rubedinem declinantem, coniungit folia iuxta stipitem et sunt minuta et oblonga sicut ruta. [Respice in ysion^''.] Centaurea maior'*, quam multi mar- 25 tam uel gencianam dicunt idem, florem habet croceum. Centum, hermodactilis, affodillus 10. walricb. 15. cachostomacus. uentrifluxum. 21. deklinantem. 25. nartan. 28. centum capita. 17. This and the next are reversed. 1 Bart. p. 15, ' Ceru&a, plumbum album.' Platearius, circ. inst. 'Cerusa, flos plumbi, siue gersa alio nomine appellatur.' Bart. p. 22, ' Gersa est quoddam album quod fit de radice brioniae, cucumeris agrestis et similium.' ib. p. 24, ' lersa, autem proprie fit de iaro et serpentaria, cerusa vero de plumbo.' Cath. Anglicum (E. E. Text Soc. 1881) 'Blek, attramen, attramentum, gersa, blacta:'—with a note just before it ' Gerso = fucare faciem' from the Medulla Grammatica. See post, Gersa. ^ xpnixBiov, Diosc. v. 103, * Paddock- pipe or Toad-pipe, a name for Horsetail, Equisetum: cf. Wright, Prov. Dict. Toad-pipes; and see ante, Boletus. = Gerarde, p. 1116, 'in English Horse-taile, Shave-grasse.' * Orosius, V, 7, ' Succo tritici per artem confecto, quem succum a calefaciendo celiam vocant.' Plm. Hist. Nat. xxii. 25, ad fin. Florus, ii. 18. See Du Cange, ia voc. ' aivT]m, Diosc. ii. 183. Fr. seneve. ' E. P. N. p. 51, 'Boc sinapium, warkecok.' '° App.' Celsus, i. monis.' E. P. N. p. 45, 'Celsi, murer, mur-berien,' whence our word mulberry. Gerarde, p. 1508, ' in shops morus celsi.' Matth. Silv. c. cxlvii, ' Celsa, i. mora celsi.' App. ' Celsa, i. mora domestica.' Diosc. i. 180, /lopea ^ avicaixtvea SevSpov iaTi yviijpifiov, o Kapiros KvrtKds Kot\'ias, tv<S>9apTos, KaKocT^iiaxos. Diosc, iii. 7, KtvTavpiov rd ixiicpbv Kai Kfirriv 6 rtvts Xtnvriaiov naKovaiv, knttS^ iviKftovs <pt\fT tSttovs. Which seems to be truncated into ' Nesia, i. centaurea.' App. Bart. p. 15, ' Centaurea major, fel terrse idem.' E. P. N. p. 37, 'Fel terre, uel centauria eorS-gealle.' A.^^.'Fel terra, fehrifuga, i. centaurea minor.' Diosc. iii. 7, av6r) tv tS (poivtKW' viT0ir6p(pvpa, . . . (pvWa ntKpcL vironTjKT] wavtp ■mjyavov. '° •A^PP- 'Centaurea major contingit folia juxta stipitem.' See post, Ision. Diosc. i. 6, KtvTavpiov ntya, ol 5k vapKijv KaXovat. Matth. Silv. c. cxlix, Diosc. ca. centaurea secundum translationem nostram, ' Centaurea major quam multi narcam alias narcen aut gentianam dicunt, &c.' Centum capita, Plin. Hist. Nat. xxii. 8. Bart. p. 15, ' Centum capita, affodillus idem, an. clansing giesse.' Cf. Brit. Mus, Add. MSS. 15236, where clansing gras is given as a name for spurge.