Obs. [for alypon, a. Gr. ἄλῡπον painless.] An unidentified plant, so called by Dioscorides from its anodyne virtue.
1611. Cotgr., Turbit blanc … the reddish hearbe Alypum, or Alypia; talked of, but not otherwise named, by our English Herbarist.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iv. II. i. But these are very gentle, alypus, dragon root, centaury, ditany.
