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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    Pragaria ^ gall. fresere, angl. stauberie, cuius succus uel fructus ualet contra telam ^ in oculo. Flaura ^ pauca leonis idem. Herba est 5 ualde amara, facit multos [multos] ramos, et super singulos habet tria folia, et folia ut species trifolii: effecatissime prouocat% et habet uim dissoluendi. loPlammtila® longam habet hastam, ut uolubilis rotundam; masticata lin- guam comburit et est similis uite albe; pulsus munctris florem facit. 15 FenugreoTim, siled ^ idem, simile est melliloto sed minores habet ua- ginas, et grossius habet semen, semine utimur. FenugrecTim semen est cuiusdam herbe • que similiter appellatur, sed oleum 20 quod inde elicitur dicitur cilinum'', loco eius utimur semine lini. FebrifYiga quasi fugans febres : angl. fetherfoye Feniculus Sancte Marie ^ similis est 25 amarusce. Multum ualet eius semen contra fluxum uentris. Fenieulus porcinus, [fenicularis], poucedanum idem. Respice in masmatum et in peucedanum. 3° Fenicula herba est longa et gracilis que nascitur in aquis et in agris. I. Fragraria. strauberye. 4. Flama, planta. Feniculiis, maratrum hues, tam semen quam herba est. g. fenoyl. 8. efficatissime. i2.uiti. 13. inunctus febrem. 15. sileos. 20. oliuum. 29. peucedanum. 31. Feniculata est herba. 32. uel in agris. 1 Bart. p. 22, ' Fragaria, fraser, an. straubery.' Sim. Jan. ' Fragaria, herba ferens fraga ; Ovidius Metamorphoseos, montanaque fraga legebant.' ^ That is, Web (spot^ in the eye. See Halliweirs Dict. s. v. ' Pin and Web.' ' Bart. p. 21, ' Flaiira, planta leonis.' Perhaps flaura may represent the <pKafiiiov\a of Diosc. iv. 129, while planta leonis should rather be pauca leonis or pata leonis, a translation of XfovTomZiov. Cf. Gerarde, p. 949, ' Alchiinella, and of most Stellaria, Pes Leonis, Pata Leonis: . , . in French, Pied de Lion; in English, Ladies Mantle, Great Sanicle, Lyon's foot, Lyon's paw; and of some, Padelyon.' Sim. Jan. ' Flaura .. . species quedam trifolii que planta leonis vocatur.' * ' Provocat menstrua,' Renzi, Coll. Salemit. iii. 292. ^ -A-PP-'Flammula longam facit hastam, ut volubiiis rotundam, masticata linguam comburit et est similis viti albse, nisi quia non habet folia incisa sicut vitis alba.' Ap- parently the KXTjixaTh eTepa of Diosc. iv. 7. Cf. Gerarde's Flammula urens, p. 888. The name is also applied to Ranmiculns Flammula (Bart. p. 21, Flammula, i. sperwort). Sim. Jan. 'Flatnula hoc noinen multis plantis attribuitur, potius tamen speciei cujusdam plante que serpit super sepes, cujus flores sunt in globo sicut capilli albi, in quorum capilonmi radices sunt semina adurentia gustum fortiter simul coUecta in racemum, hanc greca herbaria parmilokadi vocabat, quidam vitem albam vocant.' So Malth. Silv. * Diosc.ii. 124, r^Aiy, o{ TrjKeais icapvbs . . . '¥011x0101 (paivovfi ■ypaiKovix. App.' Fenugrectim simile est melliloto, sed tamen minores facit vaginas, et crassius habet semen quo utimur.' ' «A.oioi' ttiXivov, Diosc. i. 57. * Gerarde, p. 653, 'in English Fedderfew and Feverfew, taken from his force of driving away agues.' Bart. p. 21, 'Fe?iiculus Sancta MaricB, an. tadefenel. Similis est amaruscK.' '° Bart. p. 21,' Fenictdjtsporcinus, peucedanum idem.' Diosc. iii. 82, 7r(i;«€'5ai/os Kav\&v &vlr]aiv laxvbv fiapi9pq) ofioiov. Aipp.' Fenicularis uel fcEuiculus porcinus idem est.' p.apaBpov. Bart. p. 21,' Feniculata herba longa gracilis qure nascitur in aquis.'