E Ind1cae Ge.'nusoblongum. An inferior species of nutmegs.

A Yena, (from aveo,to covet, because cattle are very fond of them). .4. sativa Lin. Sp. Pi. 118. Oats. The two kinds, the black and white, have similar virtues, but the black ones are preferred for horses, as more, nutritious; they are less so than rice or wheat, afford a sufficient-nourishment to as active and vigorous a people as the world produces; viz. the Highlanders. Gruels made with the flower, called O A T meal, digest easily, have a soft mucilaginous quality, by which they obtund acrimony, and are used for common drink and food in inflammatory disorders, coughs, hoarseness, roughness and exulceration of the fauces. A subacid jelly made with oats is a pleasant summer food, and highly useful as an antiphlogistic diet in fevers. It is called savins, sometimes frumenty.

Water gruel answers all the purposes of Hippocrates' ptisan: it forms externally, with vinegar and oil, emollient poultices for sprains and bruises, and stimulant ones with the grounds of strong beer for tumours, of a gangrenous tendency, or in poor emaciated habits. For that named Graeca and Sterilis, see AEgy-lops.