Note (29) — BOOK III.
James Greive translation
29. Panaces, or panax.) Dioscorides mentions three kinds of this, which are still retained by modern botanists. Considering the virtues he ascribes to each, I think it probable our author intends the panax Heracleum, or Hercules’s all heal, from whence the opopanax is produced. Though it is to be observed, that Pliny affirms the opopanax to be obtained from the panax Asdepium. Lib. xxv. cap. 4. P. Ægineta from the Heracleum lib. vii.