Note E222 — 40.
Reading edition
"Purslane," in Turner's Herball Purcellaine, in the Grete Herball Porcelayne, in Dodoens Purcelayne. "It is good against St. Antonies fier, called erysipelas."—Lyte's Dodoens, p. 576. "Purslain in Latin is called Portulaca, a portula = a little gate, because they fancied it to be like one."—Lemery's Treatise on Foods, 1704, p. 92.