Note (36) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
36. Struthium.) This was an herb used by dyers. Dioscorides says it was well known. The wool-washers make use of it for cleansing wool: the root of it is pungent and diuretic, and relieves in disorders of the liver, &c. Lib. ii. cap. 381.—This herb is not known now, at least by the same name. Some take it for the luteola, others for the imperatoria, others for red valerian, others for saponaria.