Note (38) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
38. Cachrys is the fruit of the libanotis fructifera, which is by some called zea or campsanema, and has leaves like fennel, but thicker and broader, roundish, and creeping on the ground; the stalk, about a cubit or more in length; the fruit has a heating quality, very drying, whence it is good mixed with ointments against rheums of the eyes. Dioscorid. lib. iii. cap. 492. et 93.