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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    similia appio, florem uiolacium intrinsecum, semen recentem. Esula ^ quedam species est titimal[l]i. gallice, yesele. [Respice in ox- 5 poris et in titimallus] : uersus, Esula lactessit, linaria lac dare nescit ^ Es ustum alio nomine dicitur calcute cuminon ^; uirtutem habet dissol- lo uendi et consolidandi. Esarbera * i. bona carnositas. Escaton^ uel eucaton interpretatur centum habens proprietates. Escara dicitur scrusta que fit de scabie siue de combustione siue 15 de uulnere nata. Eupatorium'', lilifagus', saluia agrestis, ambrosia idem. gallice ambrose et anglice eufrasie ^*. Euforbiujn, gummi cuiusdam arboris 20 in yndia. Eunodis^^ interpretatur bene olens et dicitur ab eu quod est bonum [et sarcos quod est caro]: inde euthi- mus et eustomacicus et 25 eucrasis et eucrasia [et eucra- ticum] et infortunium et in- fortinatus: inde eusabera uel I. similia habet uiolaceum intrinsecus. 4. yasle. 6. lactescit, 8. cal- cocecumenon. 10. consu'''. 12. Eschaton. 13. potestates. 18. ambrosie. 19. wildschauge, add. Eufragia, Eufrasia idem, g^ et an. eufrasye. 22. cibens. 27. eufortunium et eufortunatus. 1 Parkinson, Theat. Bot. p. 195,' It seemeth to have taken the name from Pilyusa, being derived thereof, and made adiminitive, as if it were Pity ttsula, a short Vmula or Esula, as a small Pityusa or Pine Spurge. Torriano, fol. 1688,' Esula, the herb Devil's Milk or petty spurge.' Bart. p. 42, ' Titimallus, hujus tres sunt species quibus utimur, s. anabulla, esula et catapucia.' Gerarde, p. 501, 'There is a kinde of Tithymale called Esula major, which Martinus Rulandus had in great veneration . . . in his booke entituled Ceuturice Curationum Empiricarttm.' App.' Esula similis est minori tithymallo.' Math. Silv. c. ccxlv, ' Esula latine, arab. scebram, grec. vero pinas vel peplus.' ^ Sim. Jan. 'Esula lactescit, sine lacte linaria crescit.' The line apparently is from the 'Flos medicinse' of ihe Schola Salernitana (cf. Renzi, CoIIect. Salernit. i. 464). ' «e/cou/ieVoy XoXkos, Diosc. v. 87. Platearius, Circ. Inst. 'Es ustum alio nomine calcucecumenon appellatur.' i (vffapida. Matth. Silv. c. ccxlv,' Ersabea id est bona carnositas.' ° 'imTov. eaxapa. Bart. p. 20, ' Escara est crusta sive de scabie sive de combustione nata.' Cf. Cass.Felix, c. 67, 'cum scara, quam nos crustam dicimus.' ' Cf. Diosc. iv. 41, einanSjpiov, which seems to point to Agrimonia Eupatorium, Bart. p. 20, ' Eupatorium, i. salvia agrestis.' * k\e\i- a<paKov, Diosc. iii. 35. See ante, Elilifagus. » Bart. p. 10, 'Ambrosia, wilde sauge.' '» It would seem that Eufrasie does not belong here, but to Eufragia, which has dropped out. 1' eicl>6p0iov, Diosc. iii. 86, Bart. p. 20, 'Euforbium gummi est cujusdam arboris.' Platearius, Circ. Inst. ' Euforbium gummi est cujusdam arboris iii India nascentis.' evudT]s.^ »3 eixvfios. evarSfMXos. Matth. Silv. c. ccxlix, ' Eitsloinalica, i. bona sto.' eiiKpaaia. Perhaps representing drvxia and drvxris. evaapKia. See ante, Esarbera,