_Hæmony_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--MR. BASHAM will find some account of this
plant under the slightly different type of "Hemionion" in Pliny, xxv. 20.,
xvi. 25., xxvii. 17.:
"Invenit et Teucer eadem ætate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion'
vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem,
austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit. Medetur lienibus
... Narrantque sues qui radicem ejus ederint sine splene inveniri.
"Singultus hemionium sedat.
"'Asplenon' sunt qui _hemionion_ vocant foliis trientalibus multis,
radice limosa, cavernosa, sicut filicis, candida, hirsuta: nec caulem,
nec florem, nec semen habet. Nascitur in petris parietibusque opacis,
humidis."
According to Hardouin's note, p. 3777., it is the _Ceterach_ of the shops,
or rather _Citrach_; a great favourite of the mules, [Greek: hêmionoi],
witness Theophrastus, _Hist._, ix. 19.
Ray found it "on the walls about Bristol, and the stones at St. Vincent's
rock." He calls it "Spleenwort" and "Miltwaste." _Catalog. Plant._ p. 31.
Lond. 1677.
I have a copy of Henri du Puy's "original" _Comus_, but do not recollect
his noticing the plant.