Notes

myosota

Oreille de souris: de μνζ, μνοζ, souris, et ουζ, ωτοζ, oreille.

Myosota

Pliny xxvii. 4, § 8.

myosota

Alsine, quam quidam myosoton appellant, nascitur in lucis, unde et alsine dicta est. incipit a media hieme, arescit aestate media. cum prorepit, musculorum aures imitatur foliis. sed aliam docebimus esse quae iustius myosotis vocetur. haec eadem erat quae helxine, nisi minor minusque hirsuta esset. nascitur in hortis et maxime in parietibus. cum teritur, odorem cucumeris reddit. usus eius ad collectiones inflammationesque et in eadem omnia in quae helxine, sed infirmius. epiphoris peculiariter inponitur, item verendis ulceribusque cum farina hordeacia. sucus eius auribus infunditur.

Alsine, which some call myosoton, is found in groves; hence its name [From the Greek ἄλσος (grove)]. It begins to grow just after midwinter, and withers at midsummer. When it puts forth its leaves, they are like the ears of little mice. However, I shall describe another plant, to which more properly would be given the name myosotis. Alsine would be just the same as helxine, were it not that it is smaller and less hairy. It grows in gardens and especially on walls. When being bruised it smells like cucumber. It is used for gatherings and inflammations, and for all purposes for which helxine is employed, but with less efficacy. Especially is it applied to eye fluxes, and with barley meal to sore genitals and ulcers. Its juice is poured into the ears

myosata

De μυζ, souris, ουζ, oreille, allusion à la forme des feuilles et aux poils qui les couvrent. «Alsine quam quidam myosoton appellant… quum prorepit musculorum aures imitatur foliis», Pline, XXVII, 8. C’est, pour Fée, Parietaria cretica, L. (Paul Delaunay)

pas similitude

Toutes ces plantes, dans De latinis nominibus, sauf pour le delphinium.

Myosata

De μῡζ, «souris », et οζὗ, «oreille» (Pline, XXVII, viii).

myosotis

myosotis [Latin, adopted from Greek muoswtij, formed on muoj, gen. of muj mouse + wt-, ouj ear.]

The mouse-ear, Hieracium Pilosella. Obsolete