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[Helmut Winkler]

Plin. Nat. Hist. 21,90

My browser suggests that I already consulted that chapter yesterday, but I can't see anything about carthamus or cnicon there.  

It runs:

The hemerocalles has a soft, pale green leaf, with an odo- riferous, bulbous root. This root, applied with honey to the abdomen, draws off the aqueous humours and all corrupt blood. The leaves of it are applied for defluxions of the eyes, and for pains in the mamillæ, after childbirth.

Hemerocalles is not carthamus.

Sorry, my mistake or rather the mistake  of Karl Ernst Georges, it is Hist.Nat 21,29,53 (Mayhoff edition, which gives cneorum)

29. [53] Ergo in coronamenta folio venere melotrum, spiraea, <o>riganum, cneorum, quod casiam Hyginus vocat, et, quod cunilaginem, conyza, melissophyllum, quod apiastrum, melilotum, quod sertulam Campanam vocamus. est enim in Campania Italiae laudatissima, Graecis in Sunio, mox Chalcidica et Cretica, ubicumque vero asperis et silvestribus nata. coronas ex ea antiquitus factitatas indicio est nomen sertulae, quod occupavit. odor est croco vicinus et flos, ipsa cana; placet maxime foliis brevissimis atque pinguissimis.

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