behen

noun4

1. •
   (no longer used) Any of various plants imported into Europe for the pharmaceutical trade in dried form, so of uncertain identity.
2. •
   (no longer used) Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare.

   • The roots and seed of red Behen are Styptic, or Restringent […] — 1735
3. •
   (no longer used) Behen album or white behen: a thistle native to western and central Asia, Centaurea behen

   • White Behen is referred by all writers on materia medica to Centaurea Behen L., a plant of Persia and traditionally also of the Lebanon. — 1862
4. •
   (no longer used) Behen officinarum: Cucubalis behen or Oberna behen, synonyms for Silene vulgaris