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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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