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CHAP. 104.—THE WOOL PLANT: ONE REMEDY. THE, LACTORIS: ONE REMEDY. THE MILlTARIS: ONE REMEDY.

The wool plant,1 given to sheep fasting, greatly increases the milk. The plant commonly called lactoris,2 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 "mili- tris."3 from the fact that, applied with oil, it will effect the cure. within five days, of any wound that has been inflicted with iron.

1 "Herba lanaria." See C. xix. c. 18.

2 Hardouin identities it with the Ulva lactuca of Linnæus; but that plant, Fée says, contains no milky juice, and does not act as an emetic. One of the Euphorbiaceæ is probably meant.

3 "Military" plant. Hardouin identifies it with the Achillea mille- folium of Linnæus, mentioned in c. 95 of this Book. Fée , however, does not recognize the identity.

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