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1 Identified by Littré with the Orchids undulatifolia, and by Fée with the Orchis morio of Linnæus, the Female orchis, or Female fool-stones. Its aphrodisiac properties seem not to have been proved by modern experience, but it is nourishing in the highest degree. Linnæus, however, seems to be of opinion that it may have the effect of an aphrodisiac upon cattle. It is the name, no doubt, signifying "testicle," which originally procured for it the repute of being an aphrodisiac.
2 Identified by Desfontaines with the Orchis pyramidalis. and by Fée. with the O. papilionacea of Linnæus. Littré gives the Limodorum abor- tivum.
3 He is probably speaking of the Cratægonon of B. xxvii. c. 40, which Fée identifies with the Thelygonon of c. 91 of this Book. He remarks that from the description, the Satyrios orchis cannot have been a Monocorvledon.
4 See B. xviii. c. 14.
5 See B. viii. c. 72.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ATRAMENTUM
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- LSJ, χα^ρα^κ-ίας
- Lewis & Short, chărăcĭas
- Lewis & Short, lactārĭus
- Lewis & Short, tĭthymălus