BOOK XXVII
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A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM.
1. Researches of the ancients upon this subject 217
2. Aconite, otherwise called thelyphonon, cammaron, pardalianches, or scorpio; four remedies 218
3. Æthiopis; four remedies 221
4. Ageraton; four remedies _ib._
5. The aloe; twenty-nine remedies 222
6. Alcea; one remedy 224
7. The alypon; one remedy _ib._
8. Alsine, a plant used for the same purposes as helxine; five remedies _ib._
9. The androsaces; six remedies 225
10. Androsæmon or ascyron; six remedies _ib._
11. Ambrosia, botrys, or artemisia; three remedies 226
12. The anonis or ononis; five remedies _ib._
13. The anagyros or acopon; three remedies _ib._
14. The anonymos; two remedies 227
15. Aparine, omphalocarpos, or philanthropos; three remedies _ib._
16. The arction or arcturum; five remedies 228
17. The asplenon or hemionion; two remedies _ib._
18. The asclepias; two remedies 229
19. The aster or bubonion; three remedies _ib._
20. Ascyron and ascyroïdes; three remedies _ib._
21. The aphaca; three remedies 230
22. Alcibium; one remedy _ib._
23. Alectoroslophos or crista; two remedies _ib._
24. Alum, also called symphyton petræon; fourteen remedies 231
25. Alga rufa or red sea-weed; one remedy 232
26. Actæa; one remedy _ib._
27. The ampelos agria, or wild vine; four remedies _ib._
28. Absinthium or wormwood; four varieties; forty-eight remedies _ib._
29. Absinthium marinum or seriphum 235
30. The ballotes, melamprasion, or black leek; three remedies 236
31. Botrys, ambrosia, or artemisia; one remedy _ib._
32. The brabyla; one remedy _ib._
33. Bryon maritimum; five remedies _ib._
34. The bupleuron; one remedy 237
35. The catanance; one observation upon it. The cemos; one observation upon it _ib._
36. The calyx; three remedies 238
37. The calyx, known also as anchusa or onoclia; two remedies _ib._
38. The circæa; three remedies _ib._
39. The cirsion; one remedy 239
40. The cratægonon; two kinds of it; eight remedies _ib._
41. The crocodileon; two remedies 240
42. The cynosorchis or orchis; four remedies _ib._
43. The chrysolachanum; two varieties of it; three remedies. Coagulum terræ; two remedies 241
44. The cucubalus, strumus, or strychnon; six remedies _ib._
45. The conferva; two remedies 242
46. The coccus Cnidius, or grain of Cnidos; two remedies _ib._
47. The dipsacos; two remedies _ib._
48. The dryopteris; two remedies 243
49. The dryophonon _ib._
50. The elatine; two remedies _ib._
51. Empetros, by our people called calcifraga; four remedies 244
52. The epipactis or elleborine; two remedies _ib._
53. The epimedion; three remedies _ib._
54. The enneaphyllon; two remedies 245
55. Two varieties of filix or fern, known to the Greeks as pteris or blachnon, and as thelypteris or nymphæa pteris; eleven remedies _ib._
56. Femur bubulum, or ox thigh 246
57. Galeopsis, galeobdolon, or galion; six remedies _ib._
58. The glaux; one remedy 247
59. Glaucion; three remedies. Diaglaucia; two remedies _ib._
60. The glycyside, pæonia, or pentorobos; twenty remedies 248
61. Gnaphalium or chamæzelon: six remedies 249
62. The gallidraga: one remedy _ib._
63. Holcus or aristis 250
64. Hyoseris: one remedy _ib._
65. The holosteon: three remedies _ib._
66. The hippophæston: eight remedies _ib._
67. The hypoglossa: one remedy 251
68. Hypecoön _ib._
69. The Idæa herba or plant of Ida: four remedies _ib._
70. The isopyron or phasiolon: two remedies _ib._
71. The lathyris: two remedies 252
72. The leontopetalon or pardalion: two remedies _ib._
73. The lycapsos: two remedies _ib._
74. The lithospermum, exonychon, diospyron, or heracleos: two remedies 253
75. Lapidis muscus, or stone moss: one remedy 254
76. The limeum: one remedy _ib._
77. The leuce, mesoleucon, or leucas: three remedies _ib._
78. The leucographis: five remedies 255
79. The medion: three remedies _ib._
80. The myosota or myosotis: three remedies _ib._
81. The myagros: one remedy 256
82. The nyma: one remedy _ib._
83. The natrix: one remedy _ib._
84. Odontitis: one remedy 257
85. The othonna: one remedy _ib._
86. The onosma: one property _ib._
87. The onopordon: five remedies 258
88. The osyris: four remedies _ib._
89. The oxys: two remedies _ib._
90. The polyanthemum or batrachion: three remedies _ib._
91. The polygonos, polygonatos, teuthalis, carcinethron, clema, or myrtopetalos, otherwise known as sanguinaria or orios: four varieties of it: forty remedies 259
92. The pancratium: twelve remedies 260
93. The peplis, syce, meconion, or mecon aphrodes: three remedies 261
94. The periclymenos: five remedies _ib._
95. Pelecinon: one remedy 262
96. Polygala: one remedy _ib._
97. Poterion, phrynion, or neuras: four remedies _ib._
98. The phalangitis, phalangion, or leucacantha: four remedies 263
99. The phyteuma: one property _ib._
100. The phyllon: one property _ib._
101. The phellandrion: two remedies 264
102. The phalaris: two remedies _ib._
103. The polyrrhizon: five remedies _ib._
104. The proserpinaca: five remedies _ib._
105. Rhacoma: thirty-six remedies 265
106. The reseda: two remedies _ib._
107. The stœchas: three remedies 266
108. The solanum, by the Greeks called strychnon: two remedial properties _ib._
109. Smyrnion: thirty-two remedies _ib._
110. Telephion: four remedies 267
111. The trichomanes: five remedies 268
112. The thalictrum: one remedy _ib._
113. Thlaspi and Persicon napy: four remedies _ib._
114. The trachinia: one property 269
115. The tragonis or tragion: four remedies _ib._
116. The tragos or scorpion: four remedies 270
117. The tragopogon or come _ib._
118. The ages of plants _ib._
119. How the greatest efficacy in plants may be ensured 271
120. Maladies peculiar to various nations _ib._
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