Ampeloprasum, _Vine-leek_, being a species of wild leek, is most acrid and hot according to the last degree: hence it proves deleterious. It is incisive, deobstruent, and hurtful to the stomach. * * * * * COMMENTARY. The _Allium Ampeloprasum_ L. is recommended by Dioscorides as being more powerfully calefacient and emmenagogue than the leek (_Allium Porrum_); and when given in food, beneficial to persons stung by venomous animals. Our author follows Galen. Ἄμπελος ἀγρία, Vitis sylvestris, _the Wild Vine_; its grapes and tops are possessed of detergent powers, but have also some astringency. The powers of the _cultivated vine_ are like those of the wild, but weaker. The shoots of the _white vine_ (called also bryonia and psilothrum) are eaten as stomachics, and prove diuretic. The root is detergent, attenuant, and moderately hot. Wherefore it melts down the spleen when drunk or applied externally as a cataplasm with figs; and it cures itch and leprosy. The black vine, also called bryony, is like the aforementioned, only weaker. * * * * * COMMENTARY. The wild vine is evidently the _Tamus communis_; the white the _Bryonia dioica_; and the black the _Bryonia alba_. Gerarde, our old herbalist, says that the reason why the bryony and the wild vine are confounded together, is that Pliny could not sufficiently expound them (xxiii, 1), and made them all one, in which error are all the Arabians. Dioscorides treats of them at considerable length, and more especially of the white, which he commends in the strongest terms, as an application to malignant and ill-conditioned sores. (iv, 180.) He and Oribasius take notice of its purgative powers. Our modern herbalists and older writers on the Materia Medica, all treat of the bryonies in the same terms as the ancient authorities. See _Bryonia_. Ἀμὐγδαλα, Amygdalæ, _Almonds_; the bitter are possessed of powers which are attenuant and deobstruent of deep-seated viscid and thick humours, and detergent of those lodged in the skin. The wood has the same powers. The sweet are moderately hot. * * * * *