BOOK XXII.. The Properties of Plants and Fruits.

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