BOOK XXVII.. A Description of Plants, and of the Remedies Derived From Them.

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.