CHAP. 66.—THE PERSOLATA OR ARCION; EIGHT REMEDIES.
The persolata,[1] a plant known to every one, and called
"arcion" by the Greeks, has a leaf, larger, thicker, more
swarthy, and more hairy than that of the gourd even, with a
large white root. This plant also is taken, in doses of two
denarii, in wine.
1. Fée thinks that there is an error in the name, and that it is the "personata" that is here spoken of, the plant already mentioned in c. 58 of
this Book. Hardouin identifies it with the Tussilago petasites—the Butter-burr, according to Nemnich—but apparently without any sufficient authority.