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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    Picus, alia agrestis, alia usualis. [Ficus fatua^, sicomorus. Filoflores prassium idem. rolicula ^ respice in polipodium uel in 5 filex. Furfures, respice in proptiria sira * et in puposis '\ Flos lupini, respice in bulbus scu- dius. o Moresis ^ i. calcantum respice ibi. rios siriacus \ Plos orni, \ idem. rios malue, ) Folium paradisi ®, malabatrum idem.] 5 Fieatus huius sunt multe species, s. ficalus caprinus, ficatus hirci, [ca- pri,] et similia. FiUire solis stiptica sunt et similia oleastro stipitis rebus necessarie mescetur. 20 Fisticus fructus est testam habens et nucleum. Fricus -^^ lapis est. iii. habet species; una est metallitica que in Cipro nascitur, altera fex est craminis, 25 tertia uero species sic conficitur, lapis qui quandiu sanguineum colorem faciat, et collectus repo- nitur. Folii agrestis^* duo sunt genera, viz. 30 16. hyrci. 18. solum. 20. miscetur. 22. nudeum. 23. tres. 24. cypro. 25. eraminis. 27. lapis qui dicitur pirites colligitur et in fornace componitur et ut calx comburitur quamdiu. 30. Follii. ^ Bart. p. 21, 'Ficus fatua, i. sicomorum,' as though avKSfiopos (fig-mulberry) were avKoiiwpos. 2 Diosc.iii. 109, TTpaaiov ...ot 8i ^v\\6<pap(s. ^ Filicula, Plin. xxvi. 37. * mTvpiaais, Galen(ed. Kiihn),vol. xiv. p. 322. = Perhaps mrvpdjSTjs. ^ Flos seris. ' x-^''-^^''^^ Diosc. V. 114. * Bart. p. 21,' Flos Syriacus, flos malvje, sed ros .y/nacMi est flosorni.' ' Bart. p. 21, ' Foliuni paradisi, malabatrum idem.' If the reading is correct, the reference will be to Diosc. ii. 48, rh Tov Kdwpov fjirap. The word ficatus is the original of the It. fegato and the Fr. foie, and originally seems to have denoted the liver of a goose fattened on figs; Horat. Sat. ii. 8. 88,' ficis pastum jecur anseris albse.' Marcell. Empir. c. 22,' ficatum lupi integrum :' cf. the Greek avKun6v, and see Reinesius, Var. Lect. p. 394. The term succotriuwn, as applied to the Aloe, is therefore liable to cause confusion, being on the one hand regarded as equivalent to epaticum, and on the other as referring to that species which is brought from Socotra. Read PhilyrcB folia. Cf. Diosc. i. 125, ravTijs rcL (pvKXa artKpei ws dypif\aia, notovvTa Trpbs tcL arvipiois S(6ntva. 12 gart. p. 21, 'Fisticus fructus est testam habens et nucleum.' maraKta, Diosc. i. 177. Sim. Jan. ' Frigius lapis apud Dya. et sera. Dya. tres habet species : una est metallica quse in Cipro nascitur et de profundo lacu ascendit que et terrosa est, et post hoc sole siccatur, postea ponitur in medio circuit. farmento et comburitur, Altera vero species est fex eraminis ut jam dictum est et de eraminis fece, et hec colligitur gustum habens eri tisto similem. Tertia vero species conficitur sic, lapis qui dicitur pirites colligitur et in fornace componitur et ut calx comburitur quamdiu colorem sanguineum facit, et coUectus reponitur.' Diosc. iii. 130, (pvWov ol Se e\ai6<pv\\ov, ot Si ^pvuviav KoKovaf (pverai ev ■nirpais, rb fiiy 6r]\vy6vov \ey6pLevov, wairepel ^piiov, k,t.\. K 2