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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    Draconea ^ interpretatur asperitas palpebrarutn, inde collirium draomaticum ut in Alexandro de oculis. 5 Den leonis% capud monachi idem, cui folium lactessit in fractione. galle. dent de lion, anglice doleroune*. Dens eqninus^ uel dens equi, sul- phuraca herba, muscus'' de capo 10 idem. Stipitem habet rubeum, crescit ad modum ciceris et habet folia minuta sicut trifolium et flo- rem croceum. angl. t3'nt[h]are. Dendrolibanum'', libanotidos uel li- bantus, ros marini [idem]. gc^. eti^ ace. Ros[e]maryn. [Dens cabellintis, respice in iusqui- amus^. Derta i. serpigo, respice in zerna.] Deronica^* uel ueronica radix est 20 parua utroque capite gracilis, in medio uero lacior. Derma i. cutis, inde ostrocoderma^ i. piscis degens in concbis uel habens durum corium. 25 Dentale lapis est. I. Dracoraa. 3. dracomaticum. 5. dens. 6. cuius folium. lactescit. 7. lyon. 9. campo. 14. libanotitos. 15. ros marinus. i\. gracilis et medio. * Bart. p. 18, 'Dracoma dicitur asperitas palpebrarum, inde collirium dracomaticum.' rpdxaiixa. ' KoWovpiov rpaxaifiaTtKov, Alex. Trall. (ed. Puschmann), vol. ii. p. 49. ' Gerarde, p. 291, 'Dens Leonis or Dandelion . . . also called . . . in shops Taraxacon, Caput monachi, Rostnim porcinum and Urinaria.' * E. P. N. p. 6, 'Perdicalis, J) is Dolhrune.' Parkinson, Theat. Bot. p. 781, ' they . . . suppose it (Dandelion) to be the . . . Perdion (rather Perdicion) of Theophrastus.' « Bart. p. 17, 'Dens equinus, sulphuraca idem.' Renzi, Collect. Salernit., ' Dens equinus, sulfurica herba, muscus de campo {var. muscus triangularis vel cyperus) idem.' Sim. Jan. ' Dens equinus a quibusdam vocatur sulfuraca, planta juxta pluvios nascens.' * Sim. Jan. ' Sulfuracha a quibusdam vocatur dens equinus. Paulus ca. de pleuresi.' Matth. Silv. c. dclix, ' Sulfurata est species trifolii habens odorem sulfuris, 1. handachacha' i.e. lotus or trifolium.' cf. Diosc. iii. 113, and Plin. Hist. Nat. xxi. 9. Perhaps the Trifolium biluminosum of Gerarde, p. 1187 ; or his Trifolium odoralum, p. 1195. ' Probably from the smell: see post, Muscus. « StvSpoXt^avos. Bart. p. 17, ' Dendrolibanum, i. ros marinus.' App. ' Dentrolibanum.' = Xi&avairh. Cf Diosc. iii. 79. Bart. p. 28, ' Libanotides, i. ros marinus.' App. ' Libarutidos, i. ros marinus.' Gerarde, p. 1293, •Rosemary is called in Greeke XiPavoris (sic) aTt^pavajiiariici}... in French and Dutch, Rosemarin.' Gerarde, p. 355,' Henbane is called . . . of Matthaeus Sylvaticus, Dens caballinus, Miliman- drum, Cassilago.' vos Kvapios, Diosc. iv. 69. Cass. Felix, (ed. Rose), c. 11, ' Impetigines quas Grseci lichenas vocant, Latini vulgo zemas appellant:' ib. p. 258, where it is compared with the Spanish Snrna. 1* Apparently a corrupt form of Beronica. 1' Stpixa. 1 darpaKoStppia, Arist. Hist. Anim. iv. i. 4: cf. Bart. p. 33, ' Osirea, piscis degens in concha.' The buccinum of Plin. Hist. Nat. ix. 36. See ante, Antale. Bart. p. 17, ' Dentale, lapis est.' H [IV 3.]