BOOK XXV.. The Natural History of the Wild Plants.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.

1. When the wild plants were first brought into use 77

2. The Latin authors who have written upon these plants 78

3. At what period the Romans acquired some knowledge of this subject ib.

4. Greek authors who have delineated the plants in colours 80

5. The first Greek authors who wrote upon plants ib.

6. Why a few of the plants only have been used medicinally. Plants, the medicinal properties of which have been miraculously discovered. The cynorrhodos: two remedies. The plant called dracunculus: one remedy. The britannica: five remedies 83

7. What diseases are attended with the greatest pain. Names of persons who have discovered famous plants 86

8. Moly: three remedies 87

9. The dodecatheos: one remedy 88

10. The pæonia, pentorobus, or glycyside: one remedy ib.

11. The panaces asclepion: two remedies 89

12. The panaces heracleon: three remedies 90

13. The panaces chironion: four remedies ib.

14. The panaces centaurion or pharnacion: three remedies ib.

15. The heracleon siderion: four remedies 91

16. The ampelos chironia: one remedy ib.

17. Hyoscyamos, known also as the apollinaris or altercum; five varieties of it: three remedies ib.

18. Linoxostis, parthenion, hermupoa, or mercurialis: two varieties of it: twenty-two remedies 92

19. The achilleos, sideritis, panaces heracleon, millefolium, or scopæ regiæ; six varieties of it: three remedies 94

20. The teucrion, hemionion, or splenion: two remedies 95

21. Melampodium, hellebore, or veratrum; three varieties of it. The way in which it is gathered, and how the quality of it is tested 96

22. Twenty-four remedies derived from black hellebore. How it should be taken 98

23. Twenty-three remedies derived from white hellebore 99

24. Eighty-eight observations upon the two kinds of hellebore 100

25. To what persons hellebore should never be administered 101

26. The mithridatia 102

27. The scordotis or scordion: four remedies ib.

28. The polemonia, philetæria, or chiliodynamus: six remedies ib.

29. The eupatoria: one remedy 103

30. Centaurion or chironion: twenty remedies ib.

31. The centaurion lepton, or libadion, known also as fel terræ: twenty-two remedies 104

32. The centauris triorchis: two remedies ib.

33. Clymenus: two remedies 105

34. Gentian: thirteen remedies ib.

35. The lysimachia: eight remedies 106

36. Artemisia, parthenis, botrys, or ambrosia: five remedies ib.

37. Nymphæa, heracleon, rhopalon, or madon; two varieties of it: four remedies 107

38. Two varieties of euphorbia: four remedies. The chamelæa ib.

39. Two varieties of the plantago: forty-six remedies 109

40. Buglossos; three remedies ib.

41. Cynoglossos: three remedies 110

42. The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedy ib.

43. Plants which have been discovered by certain nations. The scythice: one remedy ib.

44. The hippace: three remedies 111

45. The ischæmon: two remedies ib.

46. The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula: forty-eight remedies ib.

47. The cantabrica: two remedies 112

48. Consiligo: one remedy ib.

49. The iberis: seven remedies 113

50. Plants which have been discovered by certain animals. Chelidonia: six remedies 114

51. The dog-plant: one remedy ib.

52. The elaphoboscon 115

53. Dictamnon; eight remedies. Pseudodictamnon or chondris. In what places the most powerful plants are found. How that milk is drunk in Arcadia for the beneficial effects of the plants upon which the cattle feed ib.

54. The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia, lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two remedies 116

55. The employment of these plants for injuries inflicted by serpents 118

56. The argemonia: four remedies 119

57. Agaric: thirty-three remedies 120

58. The echios; three varieties of it: two remedies ib.

59. Hierabotane, peristereon, or verbenaca; two varieties of it: ten remedies 121

60. The blattaria: one remedy 122

61. Lemonium: one remedy ib.

62. Quinquefolium, known also as pentapetes, pentaphyllon, or chamæzelon: thirty-three remedies ib.

63. The sparganion: one remedy 123

64. Four varieties of the daucus: eighteen remedies ib.

65. The therionarca: two remedies 124

66. The persolata or areion: eight remedies ib.

67. Cyclaminos or tuber terræ: twelve remedies 125

68. The cyclaminos cissanthemos: four remedies ib.

69. The cyclaminos chamæcissos: three remedies 126

70. Peucedanum: twenty-eight remedies ib.

71. Ebulum: six remedies 127

72. Polemonia: one remedy ib.

73. Phlomos or verbascum: fifteen remedies ib.

74. The phlomis: one remedy. The lychnitis or thryallis ib.

75. The thelyphonon or scorpio: one remedy 128

76. The phrynion, neuras, or poterion: one remedy ib.

77. The alisma, damasonion, or lyron: seventeen remedies 129

78. Peristereos: six remedies 130

79. Remedies against certain poisons ib.

80. The antirrhinum, anarrhinon, or lychnis agria: three remedies 131

81. Euclea: one remedy ib.

82. The pericarpum; two varieties of it: two remedies ib.

83. Remedies for diseases of the head. Nymphæa heraclia: two remedies 132

84. The lingulaca: one remedy ib.

85. The cacalia or leontice: three remedies 133

86. The callitrichos: one remedy ib.

87. Hyssop: ten remedies ib.

88. The lonchitis: four remedies 134

89. The xiphion or phasganion: four remedies ib.

90. Psyllion, cynoïdes, crystallion, sicelicon, or cynomyia; sixteen remedies. Thryselinum: one remedy 135

91. Remedies for diseases of the eyes 136

92. The anagallis, or corchoron; two varieties of it: six remedies ib.

93. The ægilops: two remedies 138

94. Mandragora, circæon, morion, or hippophlomos; two varieties of it: twenty-four remedies ib.

95. Hemlock: thirteen remedies 140

96. Crethmos agrios: one remedy ib.

97. Molybdæna: one remedy ib.

98. The first kind of capnos, known also as chicken’s foot: one remedy 142

99. The arborescent capnos: three remedies ib.

100. The acoron or agrion: fourteen remedies ib.

101. The cotyledon: two varieties of it: sixty-one remedies 143

102. The greater aizoüm, also called buphthalmos, zoöphthalmos, stergethron, hypogeson, ambrosion, amcrimnon, seduni magnum, or digitellus: thirty-six remedies. The smaller aizoüm, also called erithales, trithales, chrysothales, isoëtes or sedum: thirty-two remedies ib.

103. The andrachle agria or illecebra: thirty-two remedies 144

104. A remedy for diseases of the nostrils 145

105. Remedies for diseases of the teeth ib.

106. Erigeron, pappus, acanthis, or senecio: eight remedies 146

107. The ephemeron: two remedies 147

108. The labrum Venereum: one remedy 148

109. The batrachion, ranunculus, or strumus; four varieties of it: fourteen remedies ib.

110. Remedial preparations for offensive breath: two kinds of them 150