Note (21) — BOOK IV.
James Greive translation
21. Sesanum.) Dioscorides gives no description of this, but says, it is bad for the stomach, and produces a bad smell in the mouth. Lib. ii. cap. 369. Pliny tells us it is brought from India, and the colour of it is white, and it resembles the erysimum or hedge mustard in Greece and Asia. Lib. xviii. cap. 10. The moderns give this name to the oily purging grain.