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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    uastitate digili unius, cauum, et in summo gerit ramulum diffusum et folia oblonga, fructum in summi- tate ramorum habens triangulum et 5 subrotundum in modum capparis. Iiavendula \ gall. et angl. lauendre. Lactuca, huius sunt due species ^ s. domestica et agrestis, endiuia agres- tis idem, anglice et gall. endyue[t]. 10 Lactuca doinestica, gall. et angl. latewes Lacterides*, cathapucium^, nomen est herbe et seminis eiusdem, et est genus titimalH. Lacterides, quando 15 simpliciter ponitur, pro semine intelligitur. Lacta^alio nomine dicitur orobus oro- bonis, gumma est de qua urina [et] humana fit per carminum. Lactanea, id est tepida. 20 Lax'' simpliciter bonum est solutorium uentris et bonos nutriens humores. Lacteris^ multi istam lacteridem pu- tant, hastam habet in longitudinem cubiti sed inanem, in grossitudine 25 digiti unius, in qua capitellum ro- tundum, foHa in hasta sunt ob- longa sicut amigdale sed oblongi- ora et leuiora. Lanceolata^ quinqueneruium plan-30 tago minor idem est. ge. launcele, ae. ribuurt uel fanuurt 8. endyua. 11. letuse. simplex. 31. lancele. 18. et uiina humana. 32. ribwert. fauwert. 20. i. tepida. 21. Lac ' E. P. N. p. 45,' Lavendnla, lavendre.' = ■pjjg Qp[i^ ^piepoi and dypia of Diosc. ii. 164, 165. N. p. 57, ' Hec lactuca, letys.' ib. p. 65,' Hec letusa, letuse.' * Kaevpis. ° KarairSTiov. Cf. Diosc. iv. 164, tcL ffwdpiMTa . . . \api0av6p.fva fv KaTairoTiai. * Bart. p. 27, 'Lacca est gumma herbse.' Sim. Jan.' Lacca est gummi rubicundum quo tincture fivmt.' Renzi, Coll. Salernit. iii. 296, 'de qua cum urina umana fit carminium.' Bod. MS. Ashm. 1470, ' Lacca orobo orobonis alio nomine gumma est de qua et urina humana fit carminum' {in a later hand pictores utuntur). Carminum seems to be our carmine, which is said to come to us through the Low Latin carmesinus (cf French cramoisi) from the Arabic kermes. See Du Cange, s. v. Car- mesinus, and Skeat's Dict. Carmine and Crimson. Cotgrave, ' Lacqve, sanguine, rose or rubie colour. The true Lacca is an Armenian gumme used in the dyeing of Crimsons, and afterwards, (grown artificiall) imployed by Painters.' Bailey, ' Lacca a gum or ratherwax (made as some say by a kind of wingcd ants) hard, brittle, clear, and transparent, brought from India, &c., and used in painting, vamishing, &c. Also a certain red gum issuingfrom certain Trees in Arabia ofwhich the best hard sealing wax is made.' Gerarde, p. 1534,' Indian Lacke is called in shops Lacca, in Italian Lachelta . . . Paulus and Dioscorides (call it), as some have thought, Cancamum.' (Diosc. i. 23.) See ante, Bovis lacta. ' Diosc. ii. 75, yaXa koivSis plv irdv fvxviiov, Tp6<pip.ov, HaKaKTiKov KOi\'ias. ' See ante, Lacura. E. P. N. p. 44, ' Lanceolala, laimceleie, ribbe.' 1 Bart. p. 36, ' Qiiinquenervia, lanceolata, plantago minor idem.' Cotgrave,' LanceUe, Ribwort Plantaine, Lambestongue.' Ribwort Plantain. This word seems to be allied to the Ger. Fahne, and to refer to the pennon-shaped leaf of the plant. Compare the name fatie (see ante, Elpha and Folium Elphion), which, according to Gerarde, Supplement, is given to the white flour de luce. In this case the name seems to have been replaced by that of flag. Another allied word is bemerfan; see ante, Atanasia {marg. and note).