Hypericon,1259 otherwise known as the “chamæpitys”1260 or “corison,”1261 is possessed of similar properties. It is a plant1262 with a stem like that1263 of a garden vegetable, thin, red, and a cubit in length. The leaf is similar to that of rue, and has an acrid smell: the seed is enclosed in a swarthy pod, and ripens at the same time as barley. This seed is of an astringent nature, arrests diarrhœa, and acts as a diuretic: it is taken also for diseases of the bladder, in wine.