Poterion,[1976] or, as some call it, “phrynion” or “neuras,”[1977] throws out numerous branches, is shrivelled and prickly, and covered with a thick down. The leaves of it are small and round; the branches long, soft, thin, and flexible; and the blossom elongated, and of a grass-green colour. The seed is never used, but it has a pungent flavour and a powerful smell: the plant is found growing upon moist, watery, elevations. The roots are two or three in number, some two cubits in length, sinewy, white, and firm. It is dug up in autumn, and the stem yields a juice like gum, when cut. The root is said to be of wonderful efficacy as an application for the cure of wounds, more particularly of the sinews, even when severed. A decoction of it is also taken, with honey, for relaxations of the sinews, and for weakness or wounds of those parts. CHAP. 98.—THE PHALANGITIS, PHALANGION, OR LEUCACANTHA: FOUR REMEDIES. The phalangitis[1978] is by some called “phalangion,” and by others “leucanthemum,”[1979] or, as I find it written in some copies, “leucacantha.”[1980] Its branches are diminutive, never less than two in number, and running in contrary directions: the blossom is white, and similar to the flower of the red lily; the seed dark and broad, resembling the half of a lentil, but much thinner; and the root slender and of a grass-green colour. The leaves, blossoms, or seed of this plant are employed for the cure of wounds inflicted by scorpions, serpents, and the phalangium,[1981] and for the removal of griping pains in the bowels. CHAP. 99.—THE PHYTEUMA: ONE PROPERTY. As for the phyteuma,[1982] I think it a mere loss of time to describe it, it being only used as an ingredient in philtres. CHAP. 100.—THE PHYLLON: ONE PROPERTY. The Greeks give the name of “phyllon”[1983] to a plant which grows among the rocks, in mountainous spots. The female plant is of a more grass-green colour than the other, with a thin stem, a diminutive root, and a round seed, like that of the poppy. This last kind ensures the conception of issue of the same sex; while the male plant, differing only in the seed, which resembles the olive at its first appearance, ensures the conception of male issue. They are both taken in wine. CHAP. 101.—THE PHELLANDRION: TWO REMEDIES. The phellandrion[1984] grows in marshy spots, and has a leaf like that of parsley: the seed of it is taken in drink for calculi and affections of the bladder. CHAP. 102. THE PHALARIS: TWO REMEDIES. The phalaris[1985] has a long thin stem, like a reed, with a drooping flower at the extremity; the seed is like that of sesame.[1986] This plant, too, taken with milk and honey, in wine or vinegar, breaks urinary calculi, and is curative of diseases of the bladder. CHAP. 103.—THE POLYRRHIZON: FIVE REMEDIES.