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CHAP. 37.—THE CALYX, KNOWN ALSO AS ANCHUSA OR ONOCLIA: TWO REMEDIES.

The other1 kind of calyx is known by some persons as "anchusa," and by others as "onoclia." The leaves are like those of the lettuce, but longer, and with a downy surface. The root is red, and is employed topically, in combination with fine polenta,2 for the cure of erysipelas: taken internally with white wine, it is good for affections of the liver.

1 Probably the Anchusa tinctoria of Linnæus, Dyer's alkanet. See B. xxii. c. 23.

2 "Flore polentæ." See B. xviii. c. 14.

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