The common271 thorn too, with which the fulling coppers are filled is employed for the same purposes as the radicula.272 In the provinces of Spain it is commonly employed as an ingredient in perfumes and unguents, under the name of “aspalathos.” There is no doubt, however, that there is also a wild thorn of the same name in the East, as already mentioned,273 of a white colour, and the size of an ordinary tree.