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1 Sprengel thinks that this is the Thapsia asclepium of the moderns; but Fée takes it to be the Thapsia villosa of Linnæus.
2 It was valued, Dioscorides says, for its cathartic properties.
3 Either the Thapsia garganica of Willdenow, or the Thapsia villosa, found in Africa and the south of Europe, though, as Pliny says, the thapsia of Europe is mild in its effects compared with that of Africa. It is common on the coast of Barbary.
4 Pastillos.
5 Nocturnis grassationibus.
6 It is still used in Barbary for the cure of tetter and ringworm.
7 The story was, that Prometheus, when he stole the heavenly fire from Jupiter, concealed it in a stalk of narthex.
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