in the Materia Medica of the ancients, a name given by Avicenna, Serapion, and others, to a root which was like ginger, and was brought from the East Indies, and used as a provocative to venery. The interpreters of their works have rendered this word *iringo*; and hence some have supposed that our *eryngium* or *eryngo* was the root meant by it; but this does not appear to be the case on a strict inquiry, and there is some reason to believe that the famous root, at this time called *gingong*, was what they meant.