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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    neris, i. papauer plaustre ^ siue ut Latini gallam plaustrem'^ uocant. Nascitur^ in aquis stantibus uel locis non cultis et aquosis, folia 5 habet similia cicoree* sed minora et oblonga, alcius super aquam proferens capud, multa infra aquam capita habens ex una radice, flos est illi albus sicut lilii cum paruo lo pallore, semen habet in medio croceum, sed cum effloruerit rotun- dum efficitur sicut mala maciana hasta eius lenis et non grossa est et nigra, similis cinolieradix 15 nigra et aspera et nodosa, [et] in autumpno siccatur. Multa in sompnis uidentibus bibita prodesl. Que autem habet albam radicem forcior est uirtute. Nictum, fragula arbor est et habet 20 folia similia lupino et flores cro- ceos. Nux magna ^ que uenit de yndia. Nux miristica uel carida, nux mus- cata idem. 25 Nux pontica uel auellana idem. Nux quando simpliciter ponitur pro nuce usuali intelligitur. Nucheus quando simpliciter ponitur pro nucheo pinee intelligitur. 3° Oculus Xpi'^ ordorifera est, laciora habet folia iuxta stipitem et super- ius rotunda et fiorem citrinum. [Respice in centum galli.] Oculus Consulis oculus bouis idem. 35 angl. oxeseghe. 5. similia habet. 14. dnolio. 29. nucleus. 30. nucleo. 22. Add Nux indeyca, nux vomica, castaneola idem. 1 Palustre. * Alga palustris. vZaai. oTaaiixoi^, k.t.K. * Ib. KtPaipio! ^ Diosc. iii. 138, vvfKpaia (pvtTai Iv tXtai koI ° Ib. HTj^o} TrapaiT\Tjaiov. Cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. XV. 14,' Habent originem a Matio.' * 0^0105 tov KtlSajpiov, ib. ' iriveTai 5e Kai ■npbs ovtipaiynovs, ib. ' Apparently the Cocoa-nut, cf. Gerarde, p. 1522,' Tlie fruit is called in Latine, Nux Indica, of the Indians, Cocits.' ° Gerarde, p. 1537,' The Nutmeg tree is called of the Grecians Kapvov /xvpiaTiKov, of the Latines, Nvx Moschata and Nnx Myristlca: See ante, Careon and Muscus. irovTiKd, Diosc. i. 179. Gerarde, p. 1439, ' in Greeke Kapva XiovTiKrj, that isNvx Pontica ... and commonly Nux avellana, by which name it is usually knowne to the Apothecaries . . . in English, Hasell Nut and Filberd.' Matth. Silv. c. dlxviii, • Nucleus quando simpliciter ponittir pro nucleo pini intelligitur.' Pine-Apples. Gerarde, p. 1355, ' The fruit or apples of these be called in Greeke kSivoi . . . they be also named in Latine, Nuces pinece: Gerarde, p. 772, ' Wilde clarie is called after the Latine name Oculus Chrisii of his effect in helping the diseases of the eies.' See Centrum galli and App. Ocjtlus Christi. ^ Bart. p. 32,' Oculus Christi similis est oculo consulis nisi quod redolet illa non et habet florem citrinnm.j >3 Matth. Silv. c. dlxxvii, ' Oculus ConsulL-^ est herba dicta filius ante patrem uel oculus Christi.' Gerarde, p. 'j^T,' BupMhalmum, in Englishe oxe-eie . . . what form Consiligo is of we find not among the old writeis.' See ante, Butalmon. App. ' Oculus Consulis similis est menthastro.'