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The elatine [Note] has leaves like those of the helxine, [Note] diminu-
tive, round, and hairy; its branches are small, half a foot in length, five or six in number, and covered with leaves from the root upwards. It grows in corn-fields, and has a rough flavour: hence it is found very useful for defluxions of the eyes, the leaves being beaten up and applied with polenta [Note] in a linen pledget. A decoction of this plant with linseed, taken in pottage, is good for dysentery.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 27.49 | Plin. Nat. 27.50 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 27.51 |
