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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    pita, tercia [species] est ediosmo similis agresti cum foliis oblongis, cuius uirga et rami maiores sunt sed uirtute inferiores. Calamus aromaticus^ nascitur in Judea et est optimus colore risus ^ cum nodis spissis. Calcantum^ dragantum*, floresis^ ui- triolum idem. [Respice in attra- mentum.] Callis'', i. duricies manuum, callis uia stricta. ' Arduus et strictus est ad celestia callis.' [Carpocarios respice in catrei. Calcecumenon uel calchiteos, es ustum idem]. Calx exstincta est uulnera et ad in- nisiones ualet. [Respice in al- besten'.] Cassilago^S respice in caniculata. 20 Calcheeeos, calcecumenon, es ustum idem. Cachalepton ^^, respice in hemoto- calles. Cardo''^ respice in labrum ueneris et 25 in matrana. Cardo panis, secacul, yringus^'' idem. Carica, i. ficus sicca. Citonon, respice in seridis. Carobia'^ respice in siliqua. 3° Canibapirum, sulphur uiuum. Crisitis^, respice in spuma argenti. 2. simile. 5. aromatus. 6. indya. 6. ruphus. 8. uitreolum. Add calcutomenon uel calthiteos es ustus idem. 11. add calsamus, ciclamen malum terre idem, an. dilnote. 17. ad uulnera. incisiones. Diosc. i. 17, KaXafios apcu^aTiic&s (pverai /xiv iv 'IvSiq, iari 5e avThs adWiffTOS 6 Ki^piis ttvkvo- -ySvaTos. Rufus. ' x^^^^^-^^o^' Diosc. v. 114. Bart. p. 14, ' Calcanlum, i. uitreolum.' App. ' Chalcanthim, i. uitriolum.' ib. ' Chalcanthm, uitreolum, tragacanthum idem est. * Bart. p. 18, ' Dragantum, i. uitreolum, calcantum idem.' ° Flos seris, a translation of xa^«a>'^oj'; cf. Bart. p. 21, ' Flos eris, 1. cuperosa,' i.e. copperas. App. ' Eristo, i. chalcanthum.' * Bart. p. 43, ' Vitreohm viride, i. coperosa, calcantum idem.' Callum or callus. The hexameter is from some metrical collection of Equivoca similar to that of John de Garlandia, but not identical with it. = App. ' Carpotarios, id est semen ferulse.' 9 X^''''^ KfKav/ievT], Diosc. v. 115. Bart. p. 14, ' Calcucecumenon, i. es ustum. Calciton idem.' App. ' Chalcecaumenon uel casticum, i. es ustum.' ib.' Calciteos, squamma ferri.' jb. ' Calcitem, i. flos calcis;' where there seems to be a reference to the dVSoy x^'foC of Hippocrates (Kiihn, vol. xxii. p. 756). See p. 7. Bart. p. 14, ' Cassilago, i. semen jusquiami.' Corrupted apparently from ^/jiepoKaTaXXaKTos a name of ^i^fpoKaWis, in Diosc. iii. 127. Diosc. iii. n, SltpaKos . . .'Fainaiot XaPpovpL ^evtpis, ol Se KupSovix ^tvtpis. See post, Matrona. App. ' Secacul, i. eryngium.' Bart. p. 38, ' Setacjd sigillum Sanctaa Mari£e vel yringi secundum quosdam.' fiphyyiov, Diosc. iii. 21. App.' Eryngium, i. centum capi at:' i. e. centum capita, Plin. Hist. Nat. xxii. 8. Bart. p. 14, ' Carica est ficus sicca.' App. 'Caricce, i. ficcus siccse.' Kixi^ptov, Diosc. ii. 159. The caroh tree or St. John's Bread (Gerarde, p. 1429). It is the Kep&Tiov of Diosc. i. 158. '* This strange distortion represents the OeTov &nvpov of Diosc. v. 123; See App. Fubapiron, Girapiron and Tibaiarum. ° XP»^''^- ^art. p. 40, ' Spuma argenti est litargiinm.'