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REPLY1850

Hæmony

By G. M. (Guernsey)

MR. BASHAM will find some account of this plant under the slightly different type of "Hēmionion" in Pliny, xxv. 20., xvi. 25., xxvii. 17.: "Invenit et Teucer eadem ætate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion' vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem, austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit. Medetur lienibus ... Narrantque sues qui radicem ejus ederint sine splene inveniri. "Singultus hemionium sedat. "'Asplenon' sunt qui *hemionion* vocant foliis trientalibus multis, radice limosa, cavernosa, sicut filicis, candida, hirsuta: nec caulem, nec florem, nec se…

Topics: Botany, Historical Plant Usage, Victorian Scholarly Research

Locations: Bristol, St. Vincent's rock, Lond