swollen after child-birth, to incipient fistulas^a of the eye and to erysipelas. The smell induces sleep. It is beneficial for a decoction of the root to be taken by sufferers from cramp, violent falls, convulsions, asthma and also chronic cough. Three or four sprays of it are boiled down to one third. A draught of this is cleansing for women after miscarriage, and removes stitch in the side or stone in the bladder. It is pounded with lily petals to make dusting powders, and for the sake of the perfume is laid among clothes. Combretum, which I have said^b is similar to hazelwort, beaten up with axle-grease is a wonderful cure for wounds.

LXXVIII. Hazelwort^c is said to be beneficial forUses of hazelwort and of other plants. liver complaints, an ounce being taken in a hemina of diluted honey wine. It purges the bowels after the manner of hellebore, and is good for dropsy, the hypochondria, the uterus and for jaundice. When added to must it makes a diuretic wine. It is dug up when the leaves are forming;^d it is dried and then stored up. In the shade it very quickly goes mouldy.

LXXIX. Since certain authorities, as I have said,^e have given to the root of hazelwort the name of rustic nard, I will now add the medicinal uses of Gallic nard also, which I mentioned when dealing with foreign trees,^f postponing fuller treatment to the present occasion. So for serpent bites it is useful in doses of two drachmae taken in wine, for flatulence