BOOK XXII
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THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.
1. The properties of plants 389
2. Plants used by nations for the adornment of the person _ib._
3. Employment of plants for dyeing. Explanation of the terms sagmen, verbena, and clarigatio 390
4. The grass crown: how rarely it has been awarded 392
5. The only persons that have been presented with this crown 393
6. The only centurion that has been thus honoured 394
7. Remedies derived from other chaplet plants 395
8. The erynge or eryngium 396
9. The eryngium, called centum capita: thirty remedies 397
10. The acanos: one remedy 398
11. The glycyrrhiza or adipsos: fifteen remedies 399
12. Two varieties of the tribulus: twelve remedies 400
13. The stœbe or pheos 401
14. Two varieties of the hippophaes: two remedies _ib._
15. The nettle: sixty-one remedies 402
16. The lamium: seven remedies 404
17. The scorpio, two kinds of it: one remedy 405
18. The leucacantha, phyllos, ischias, or polygonatos: four remedies _ib._
19. The helxine: twelve remedies 406
20. The perdicium, parthenium, urceolaris, or astercum: eleven remedies 407
21. The chamæleon, ixias, ulophonon, or cynozolon; two varieties of it: twelve remedies _ib._
22. The coronopus 409
23. The anchusa: fourteen remedies _ib._
24. The pseudoanchusa, echis, or doris: three remedies 410
25. The onochilon, archebion, onochelis, rhexia, or enchrysa: thirty remedies _ib._
26. The anthemis, leucanthemis, leucanthemum, chamæmelum, or melanthium; three varieties of it: eleven remedies 411
27. The lotus plant: four remedies 412
28. The lotometra: two remedies _ib._
29. The heliotropium, helioscopium, or verrucaria: twelve remedies. The heliotropium, tricoccum, or scorpiuron: fourteen remedies 413
30. The adiantum, callitrichos, trichomanes, polytrichos, or saxifragum; two varieties of it: twenty-eight remedies 415
31. The picris: one remedy. The thesion: one remedy 417
32. The asphodel: fifty-one remedies _ib._
33. The halimon: fourteen remedies 419
34. The acanthus, pæderos, or melamphyllos: five remedies 421
35. The bupleuron: five remedies _ib._
36. The buprestis: one remedy 422
37. The elaphoboscon: nine remedies _ib._
38. The scandix: nine remedies. The anthriscum: two remedies 423
39. The iasione: four remedies _ib._
40. The caucalis: twelve remedies 424
41. The sium: eleven remedies _ib._
42. The sillybum 425
43. The scolymos or limonia: five remedies _ib._
44. The sonchos: two varieties: fifteen remedies 426
45. The condrion or chondrylla: six remedies 427
46. Mushrooms; peculiarities of their growth 428
47. Fungi; signs by which the venomous kinds may be recognized: nine remedies 429
48. Silphium: seven remedies 431
49. Laser: thirty-nine remedies 432
50. Propolis: five remedies 434
51. The various influences of different aliments upon the disposition 435
52. Hydromel: eighteen remedies 436
53. Honied wine: six remedies 437
54. Melitites: three remedies 438
55. Wax: eight remedies _ib._
56. Remarks in disparagement of medicinal compositions 439
57. Remedies derived from grain. Siligo: one remedy. Wheat: one remedy. Chaff: two remedies. Spelt: one remedy. Bran: one remedy. Olyra or arinca: two remedies 440
58. The various kinds of meal: twenty-eight remedies 441
59. Polenta: eight remedies 442
60. Fine flour: five remedies. Puls: one remedy. Meal used for pasting papyrus, one remedy _ib._
61. Alica: six remedies 443
62. Millet: six remedies 444
63. Panic: four remedies _ib._
64. Sesame: seven remedies. Sesamoides: three remedies. Anticyricum: three remedies _ib._
65. Barley: nine remedies. Mouse-barley, by the Greeks called phœnice: one remedy 445
66. Ptisan: four remedies 446
67. Amylum: eight remedies. Oats: one remedy _ib._
68. Bread: twenty-one remedies 447
69. Beans: sixteen remedies _ib._
70. Lentils: seventeen remedies 448
71. The elelisphacos, sphacos, or salvia: thirteen remedies 449
72. The chickpea and the chicheling vetch: twenty-three remedies 450
73. The fitch: twenty remedies 451
74. Lupines: thirty-five remedies 452
75. Irio or erysimum, by the Gauls called vela: fifteen remedies 453
76. Horminum: six remedies 454
77. Darnel: five remedies _ib._
78. The plant miliaria: one remedy 455
79. Bromos: one remedy _ib._
80. Orobanche or cynomorion: one remedy _ib._
81. Remedies for injuries inflicted by insects which breed among leguminous plants _ib._
82. The use made of the yeast of zythum 456
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