samolus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

samŏlus, i, m. [Celtic],

a plant , supposed to be the Anemone pulsatilla (Linn.), but, acc. to Sprengel, the Samolus valerandi, Linn.; or brook-weed , Plin. 24, 11, 63, § 104.