CHAP. 104.—THE WOOL PLANT: ONE REMEDY. THE LACTORIS: ONE REMEDY. THE MILITARIS: ONE REMEDY. The wool plant,[417] given to sheep fasting, greatly increases the milk. The plant commonly called lactoris,[418] is equally well known: it is full of a milky juice, the taste of which produces vomiting. Some persons say that this is identical with, while others say that it only resembles, the plant known as “militaris,”[419] from the fact that, applied with oil, it will effect the cure, within five days, of any wound that has been inflicted with iron. CHAP. 105.—THE STRATIOTES: FIVE REMEDIES. The Greeks speak in high terms also of the stratiotes,[420] though that is a plant which grows in Egypt only, and during the inundations of the river Nilus. It is similar in appearance to the aizoön,[421] except that the leaves are larger. It is of a remarkably cooling nature, and, applied with vinegar, it heals wounds, as well as erysipelas and suppurations. Taken in drink with male frankincense, it is marvellously useful for discharges of blood from the kidneys. CHAP. 106. (19.)—A PLANT GROWING ON THE HEAD OF A STATUE: ONE REMEDY. It is asserted also, that a plant growing[422] on the head of a statue, gathered in the lappet of any one of the garments, and then attached with a red string to the neck, is an instantaneous cure for head-ache. CHAP. 107.—A PLANT GROWING ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER: ONE REMEDY. Any plant that is gathered before sunrise on the banks of a stream or river, due care being taken that no one sees it gathered, attached to the left arm without the patient knowing what it is, will cure a tertian fever, they say. CHAP. 108.—THE HERB CALLED LINGUA: ONE REMEDY. There is a herb called “lingua,”[423] which grows in the vicinity of fountains. The root of it, reduced to ashes and beaten up with hog’s lard—the hog, they say, must have been black and barren—will cure alopecy, the head being rubbed with it in the sun. CHAP. 109.—PLANTS THAT TAKE ROOT IN A SIEVE: ONE REMEDY. Plants that take root in a sieve that has been thrown in a hedge-row, if gathered and worn upon the person by a pregnant woman, will facilitate delivery. CHAP. 110.—PLANTS GROWING UPON DUNGHILLS: ONE REMEDY. A plant that has been grown upon a dungheap in a field, is a very efficacious remedy, taken in water, for quinzy. CHAP. 111.—PLANTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOISTENED WITH THE URINE OF A DOG: ONE REMEDY. A plant upon which a dog has watered, torn up by the roots, and not touched with iron, is a very speedy cure for sprains. CHAP. 112.—THE RODARUM: THREE REMEDIES.