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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    dum Nich.^ in diamoron^ Re- spice in rubus. Batus ^ respice in elenium. Baldemonia *, respice in ualdemonia. 6 Bacittira eris ^ lapidos calcis idem. Basilion entaticum*, respice in me- diousum. Bana herba ueneris % respice in co- lumbaria. 10 Barba anglica, respice in archangelica. Barbastus S respice in flosmos'.] Barba iouis uel iouis barba, sti- cados citrinum, themolus, semper- uiua. Gallice iubarbe, anglice syn- grene, erewort, houslek. [Respice 15 in bulbus astus.] Barba elexis, bardana, lappa inuersa, lappa maior, angl. clote, cuius fructus uocatur ace, Burre. Barba yrsina^'^, assimulatur lingue bo- 20 uis, asperiora tamen habet folia, a^. buckestonge. 13. cytrinum. sempeniiua idem. anglice, erewert uel houslek uel sinegrene. 17. Barba elixis. 18. cloote. 20. yrcina. 22. bockestonge. ^ Nicolaus MyrepsusXfol. 1549), p. H5- ' See App. Diacoregium etc, for compounds of lA. « Diosc. i. 27, Wkviov... 01' 3« &Ltov ISaiav (var. ^aroviiUav). * Baldmoney or Bawdmoney, a name given, according to Parkinson (Theat. Bot. 1640, p. 1735), to Gentian, and also to Meum or Spignell. Bald-money may be connected wlth the god Balder: cf. the name Balders brow for chamo- mile: and the Ger. Baldrian for Valerian (Grassmann, Deutsche Pflanzennamen, p. 123). * Read batitura ceris, \enldof x^^^kov, and cf Diosc. v. 89. Bart. p. 12, 'Baiilura ferri, ponfiligos idem.' » Matlh. Silv. c Ixxxiii, 'Basilicon etitaticon quid est 1. medion, Diasco.' Diosc. iv. i8, ^iiiSLov, where the only possible source of corruption seems to be contained in the names Kv^iWiov and k\i]imtiov. The explanation of mediousum may perhaps be found in dcTfids, which is an equivalent of fiijhov. ' Read bona herba ueneris, which seems to be vervain. « Verbascum, cf Plin. Hist. Nat. XXV. lo. ^ <t>\6iJios, Diosc. iv. 102. Bart. p. 21,'Flosmus, tapsus barbastus idem.' Gerarde, p. 774, says the plant is called in shops Tapsus barbalus, which may be corrupted from Verbascum : see App. Flomus. See ante, Ayzon. Themolus = Ttei!/ia\os. Erewort recalls the name prpine given to SedumTelephium. It may perhaps be referred to in ' Aurinaleucia, orual, stedfast,' see ante, Aurinaleucia. See post, Crassula Major: cf Physica Stse. Hildegardis, ii. 86, Semperviva. ' Si quis surdus in auribus est ita quod auditu caret, lac feminse tollat qu£e masculum peperit cum jam decem aut duodecim septimanse sunt quod filium genuit, et modicum plus de succo sempervivee lacti huic addat, et in aurem suam aut tres aut quatuor guttas de eodem modice immitti faciat, et hoc fieri sDspe permittat et auditum recipiet.' cf. Macer, de Acidula, 'Auribus expressus succus si funditur ejus Adjuvat auditum mire pellitque dolorem.' The frequency of Houseleek may be due not only to its medicinal virtues, but also to the influence of superstition: cf. Apuleius, De Virt. Herb. c. 124, 'Sempervivee nomen sumpsit quod sit semper viridis, ab aliquibus Stergethron {aTipy7]9pov) vocatur eo quod amorifica judicetur, unde et pro foribus a plurimis ponitur ut pellat odia.' Bart. p. 12. ' Bardana, i. lappa inversa, sive lappa major quod idem est.' ib.' Bardana, an. clote, gert burr.' id. p. 13, ' Burrus. gertt clote. The plant is Burdock or Clot-bur. E. P. N. p. ^6,'Lappa, bardane, clote.' Apuleius, de Virt. Herbarum (Aldus 154/). c 36, calls it Dardana. Barba hircina, perhaps a translation o[ rpayoTidjywv, Diosc. ii. 172. Bart. p. 12, 'Barba yrcina, i. ypoquistidos.'