[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Decker, Terry D.]

Saterion is probably more correctly spelled Satyrion, the purple orchis,
Orchis mascula.  It contains starch and is used to produce salep, a starch
meal used as food, as a drink, and as an aphrodisiac.

Here are a couple of period references:

Matiolli:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kinney/medium/page334.jpg

Fuchs:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kinney/small/pe322.htm


Diasaterion (try diasatyrion) appears to be Orchis militaris.

http://www.kraeuter.ch/Knabenkraut/Knabenkraut.htm

or possibly, a preparation of satyrion:

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFiction/Culpeper/Herbal/chap389.html

the previous URL is only part of Culpepper's Herbal:

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFiction/Culpeper/Herbal/Default.htm


Scincus is a genus of skinks, but this may be a point where the taxonomy
varies from previous usage.