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1 The Lepidium sativum of Linnæus, cresses or nose-smart.
2 This opinion is corroborated by Dioscorides, B. ii. c. 185, and confirmed by the author of the Geoponica, B. xii. c. 27. Fée inclines to the opinion of Dioscorides, and states that is highly antiscorbutic.
3 In B. xix. c. 44.
4 The two varieties, the white and the black, are no longer distinguished. The only variety now recognized, Fée says, is that with crisped leaves.
5 "Furunculos." Gangrenous sores, probably.
6 "Unguibus scabris," i. e. for the removal of malformed nails, with the view to the improvement of their appearance.
7 The Lepidium Iberis of Linnæus, Fée thinks.
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