CHAP. 52.—THE ELAPHOBOSCON.

The hind, with a much greater degree of frankness, has discovered to us the elaphoboscon, a plant of which we have already[1] spoken, and which is also called "helxine,"[2] from the assistance it affords those animals in yeaning.

1. In B. xxii. c. 37.

2. From the Greek e(/lkw, "to draw."