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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    CostusS duplex est maneries viz. cos- tus indicus qui subrufus est, et costus arabicus qui albus est quo utimur. Cordilion^ uel sescliti creticum idem, frutex est [nascensj in Scicilia. Cordumen^ carui agreste idem, [res- pice ibi.] Croci* suni due species s. ortensis et orientalis. gall. et ace. saff- ron^ Currago, persicaria^ id. gallice culrage, ance arssmerte. [Cornu seruinum'', gall. et angl. er- beyue.] '5 Cuscute % podagra lini[uel rasta lini ^**] grinicus bnmcus idem. angl. doder. Cucurbita Alexandrina, uel cucur- bita agrestis, brionia idem. Gal- 20 lice et anglice, gourde, [respice in gelena^'^ et in sicides.] Cucumeris agrestis cuius semen simile est ozime sed paulo magis et longi- ora habet folia, nascitur in carapis 25 et in locis arenosis'*. [Respice in I. videlicet. 5. seseliti. 10. saffran. 13. ersmertte. fructus est cuiusdani arboris ia transmarinis partibus nascens. 17. gruncus. 24. ortine. 23. add, Cucube maius. 1 Platearius circ inst. ' Est costus duplicis maneriei, s. indicus qui subrufus est . . . et avabicus qui s. albus esi et temperatior, quo utimur.' ' Sim. Jan. ' Codilion, Dya. similis est cameleonte nigre :* ib. ' Cordilion, Dyascori. multi siseleos creticum vocant, nascitur m Sicilia.^ Diosc iii. 56, ropSiXwv, ol U rSpSvXov, ivioi Si aiaiXi KprjTucbv KaXovai, <pifTai iv rw «ard KiMhLv 'Ap^avZ. Hart-wort. ^ Sim. Jan. ' Cordumeni arabice est a greco extortum . . . Joannes Serapion in descriptione Tyria exponit quod est carui agreste.' * Plateanus, circ. inst 'Croci due sunt species. ortensis . . . et orientalis . . = E. P. N. p. 52. 'Htc crocus, safurroun.' ib. p. 64, ' Hic crocus, safryn.' « Bart. p. 33, ' Persicaria minor, an. colerage. E P N p 64. 'Hoc anisuni, a culrayge.' Gerarde, p. 447. in English, Water-Pepper, Culrage. and Arse-smart' ' Bart. p. 17. ' Cornu cervi, i. herbive.' E. P. N. p. 46, 'Ostrapum, herbyve li>e-wurt.' Gerarde, of Bucke-home Plantaines, or Harts-home, p. 428,' Bucks-home is called in Latine Cornu cervinum, or Harts-home; ... and of many, Herbe Ivy or Herbe . 8 Bart. p. 17, ' Cuscute, i. podagra lini, doder.' ib. p. 15, ' Cuscute, 1. podagra lini,'doder idem.' App. ' Cuscuta, i. podragra lini.' » The French Goutte de lin. B^rL p 34 'Podagra lini, cuscuta idem. an. doder.' Bart. p. 13, ' Bruncus, rasta Imi idem. sim Jan ' Cuscute, rasca lini, podagra lini eo quod linum necat: gruncus lini, 1. planta Imo infesta' Nemnich among the French names for Cuscuta has rasque. Cf. Cotgrave, 'Rasque, the scurfe of a scauld head,' so that rasta lini or rasca lini may represent the French name, Teisne de lin. Cf. Bart. p. 42, ' Tinea nomen est equivocum ad vermem et ad scabiem capitis. n Bart p 23 ' Grinicus, cuscute idem.' Jo. Jac. de Manliis (Brunfels. Nov. Herb. 1531. vol. 2. n 160) ' Cuscuta id est podagra lini . . . vocatur etiam Gringus.' Matth. Silv. c. ccc, ' Grungus lini, cuscute, podagra lini.' Ib. c. cc, ' Cuscute, rasca ligni, podagra lini, bruncus, draascus idem' Renzi, Collect. Salemit. has bruscus, gruscus, gruncus, grimcus. ur^ Celena. It appears to be a Semitic word. ^ cIkvs Aypios, Diosc. iv. 152. l^iosc. iv. 152, <pv(Tai iv oiKOTTfSots Kai inixuiSfai ronois.