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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    tulo de idropici. Respice in celi- donia agrestis. Melones, respice in pepones. Melimela^ respice in apropima. sMelsa, ) . . .2-, Mellicratum, } ^^^P'^^ P°^°^^ Mellissa apiasia, mellilempnias *, suringula^, citrago, citraria^, me- lago idem. Herba est pigmen- 0 taria, ae. bonrefair'' uel bouruurt uel beuurt uel beruurt uel medwor*. [Respice in turinge.] Mel^ componitur artificiose de apibus, nam puriorem partem florum sug- 1 gerendo attrahunt. g^. mel, anglice hony. Mellilotiim eius flos uocatur corona regia. [Respice in matris sula.] MeUiseph.ilos sive melliflLlon dictum ideo quod apes illam libenter 20 comedunt. Tirsos habet quadran- gulos nigros, folia similia buglosse, sed maiora et tenuia, folia eius cum uino bibita et cathaplasmata uim scorpionis aptissime curant, 35 MeUicraton uirtutem similem habet ydromelli, tussientibus medetur datum. [Respice in apomidi.] Mentula episcopi florem habet cro- ceum et latum, in aquis crescit, 30 secundum antiquos appellatur apium emoroydarum. Menta plures habet species. [Respice in ediosmus et in idiosmum.] Menta domestica uel ort[h]olana 35 idem, a^. et g». mynte. Menta siluatica, mentastrumsisin~ brium [idem]. a«. horsmynte. 7- apiapia. 8. curingula. 10. Bourfair. bourwert. 11. bewert. berwert. medwrt. 19. mellisophilos. melliphilon. 21. Thirsos. 23. tenuiora. 35. optime. 36. habet similem. 36. mente. ' fitXl/jiijXa, Diosc. i. 161. ' See ante, Apomel. ' Diosc. iii. 108, fi(\ta(T6<pv\\ov,~ b (Vioi iXf\iTTaivav Ka\ovaiv, ol h\ ii(\iTTaiov, ol b\ ix(\i(pv\\ov, oi 5e (pv9p&, ol Si Tr]fi(\fi, PajnatOL diTiaffTpovn, oi Si KiTpdyaj. * Mellilempnias may represent ix(\iTTaiva. See ante, Citranglium and Citromilum. « See ante, Citria. ' These words are all efforts of the scribe to make out some illegible word, probably bee-worl: cf. E. P. N. p. 11,' Apiago, beo- wyrt.' See ante, Citria. * Bart. p. 29, ' Melisa, herba pigmentaria idem, an. medewoit secundum quosdam.' ' M^^') Diosc. ii. loi. Read sugendo. Fr. miel. fi(\i\<uTos, Diosc. iii. 41. Matth. Silv. c. dxxxvii, ' Mehlota est herba cujus semen et flos dicitur corona regia. la. pratellum.' See App. Melilotum. Diosc. iii. 108, fi(\taa6- (pvWov, . . . uiv6fxaaTat ovtqi Std, ijd^aOat Ty voa tcLs fX(\iTTas' (OiK( h\ ainrjs Td. <pv\\a Kal rd Kav\ia Ty irpodprjftivi^ ^aWwT^' fid^ova h\ TavTa Koi \(rrT6T(pa, k.t.\. fi(\iKpaTov, Diosc. V. 17. See ante, Apomel. Sloane MS. 282,' Mentula Episcopt, medeflour and hit ha)) a zolw flour and brode leues and hit growy]) on wateres.' Bart. p. 30,' Meniula, an. gollan, apium emoroidarum idem.' The plant meant is the Pile-wort Crowfoot. Diosc. iii. 36, dl apytov ^Svofffxov, b 'Faifjiaioi fx(v8&aTpovfx Ka\ovai , , . fxd^ov aiavfi^piov, Q a