BOOK XVIII.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.Chap.Page1.Taste of the ancients for agriculture12.When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome33.The jugerum of land44.How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably low price75.Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture96.Points to be observed in buying land117.The proper arrangements for a farm-house138.Maxims of the ancients on agriculture169.The different kinds of grain1910.The history of the various kinds of grainib.11.Spelt2412.Wheat2513.Barley: rice2714.Polenta2815.Ptisan2916.Tragumib.17.Amylumib.18.The nature of barley3019.Arinca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East3120.Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour3221.The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat3522.Sesame. Erysimum or irio. Horminum3623.The mode of grinding cornib.24.Millet3825.Panicib.26.The various kinds of leavenib.27.The method of making bread: origin of the art3928.When bakers were first introduced at Rome4029.Alica4130.The leguminous plants: the bean4331.Lentils. Pease4632.The several kinds of chick-peaseib.33.The kidney-bean4734.The rapeib.35.The turnip4836.The lupine4937.The vetch5138.The fitchib.39.Siliciaib.40.Secale or asia5241.Farrago: the craccaib.42.Ocinum: erviliaib.43.Lucerne5344.The diseases of grain: the oat5445.The best remedies for the diseases of grain5746.The crops that should be sown in the different soils5947.The different systems of cultivation employed by various nations6048.The various kinds of ploughs6249.The mode of ploughingib.50.The methods of harrowing, stubbing, and hoeing, employed for each description of grain. The use of the harrow6651.Extreme fertility of soil6752.The method of sowing more than once in the year6853.The manuring of landib.54.How to ascertain the quality of seed6955.What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for sowing a jugerum7156.The proper times for sowing7257.Arrangement of the stars according to the terrestrial days and nights7458.The rising and setting of the stars7759.The epochs of the seasons7860.The proper time for winter sowing7961.When to sow the leguminous plants and the poppy8162.Work to be done in the country in each month respectivelyib.63.Work to be done at the winter solstice8264.Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence of the west winds8365.Work to be done between the prevalence of the west winds and the vernal equinox8466.Work to be done after the vernal equinox8667.Work to be done after the rising of the Vergiliæ: hay-making8868.The summer solstice9269.Causes of sterility9770.Remedies against these noxious influences10171.Work to be done after the summer solstice10272.The harvest10373.The methods of storing corn10474.The vintage, and the works of autumn10775.The revolutions of the moon11176.The theory of the winds11377.The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind11478.Prognostics derived from the sun11779.Prognostics derived from the moon11980.Prognostics derived from the stars12081.Prognostics derived from thunder12182.Prognostics derived from cloudsib.83.Prognostics derived from mists12284.Prognostics derived from fire kindled by manib.85.Prognostics derived from waterib.86.Prognostics derived from tempests12387.Prognostics derived from aquatic animals and birdsib.88.Prognostics derived from quadrupeds12489.Prognostics derived from plants12590.Prognostics derived from foodib.BOOK XIX.THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.1.The nature of flax—marvellous facts relative thereto1292.How flax is sown: twenty-seven principal varieties of it1313.The mode of preparing flax1354.Linen made of asbestos1365.At what period linen was first dyed1386.At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the theatresib.7.The nature of spartum1398.The mode of preparing spartum1409.At what period spartum was first employed14110.The bulb eriophorusib.11.Plants which spring up and grow without a root—plants which grow, but cannot be reproduced from seed14212.Misy; iton; and geranion14313.Particulars connected with the truffle14414.The pezicaib.15.Laserpitium, laser, and maspetumib.16.Magydaris14717.Madder14818.The radiculaib.19.The pleasures of the garden14920.The laying out of garden ground15421.Plants other than grain and shrubs15522.The natural history of twenty different kinds of plants grown in gardens—the proper methods to be followed in sowing them respectivelyib.23.Vegetables of a cartilaginous nature—cucumbers. Pepones15624.Gourds15825.Rape. Turnips16126.Radishes16227.Parsnips16528.The skirret16629.Elecampane16730.Bulbs, squills, and arum16831.The roots, flowers, and leaves of all these plants. Garden plants which lose their leaves17032.Varieties of the onion17133.The leek17334.Garlic17435.The number of days required for the respective plants to make their appearance above ground17736.The nature of the various seeds17837.Plants of which there is but a single kind. Plants of which there are several kinds17938.The nature and varieties of twenty-three garden plants. The lettuce; its different varieties18039.Endive18240.Beet: four varieties of it18341.Cabbages; the several varieties of them18542.Wild and cultivated asparagus18843.Thistles19044.Other plants that are sown in the garden: ocimum; rocket; and nasturtium19145.Rueib.46.Parsley19247.Mintib.48.Olusatrum19349.The caraway19450.Lovageib.51.Dittander19552.Githib.53.The poppy19654.Other plants which require to be sown at the autumnal equinox19755.Wild thyme; sisymbriumib.56.Four kinds of ferulaceous plants. Hemp19857.The maladies of garden plants19958.The proper remedies for these maladies. How ants are best destroyed. The best remedies against caterpillars and flies20059.What plants are benefitted by salt water20160.The proper method of watering gardensib.61.The juices and flavours of garden herbs20262.Piperitis, libanotis, and smyrnium203BOOK XX.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS.1.Introduction2062.The wild cucumber: twenty-six remedies2073.Elaterium: twenty-seven remedies2084.The anguine or erratic cucumber: five remedies2095.The cultivated cucumber: nine remedies2106.Pepones: eleven remedies2117.The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus: one remedy2128.The colocynthis: ten remediesib.9.Rape: nine remedies21310.Wild rape: one remedy21411.Turnips; those known as bunion and bunias: five remediesib.12.The wild radish, or armoracia: one remedy21513.The cultivated radish: forty-three remediesib.14.The parsnip: five remedies. The hibiscum, wild mallow, or plistolochia: eleven remedies21815.The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remediesib.16.Gingidion: one remedy21917.The skirret: eleven remedies22018.Sile, or hartwort: twelve remedies22119.Elecampane: eleven remedies22220.Onions: twenty-seven remediesib.21.Cutleek: thirty-two remedies22322.Bulbed leek: thirty-nine remedies22523.Garlic: sixty-one remediesib.24.The lettuce: forty-two remedies. The goat-lettuce: four remedies22825.Cæsapon: one remedy. Isatis: one remedy. The wild lettuce: seven remediesib.26.Hawk-weed: seventeen remedies22927.Beet: twenty-four remedies23228.Limonion, or neuroides: three remedies23329.Endive: three remediesib.30.Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration or ambula: twelve remedies23431.Hedypnoïs: four remediesib.32.Seris, three varieties of it: seven remedies borrowed from it23533.The cabbage: eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Catoib.34.Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto23735.Cabbage-sprouts23936.The wild cabbage: thirty-seven remedies24037.The lapsana: one remedy24138.The sea-cabbage: one remedyib.39.The squill: twenty-three remediesib.40.Bulbs: thirty remedies24341.Bulbine: one remedy. Bulb emetic24442.Garden asparagus; with the next, twenty-four remedies24543.Corruda, libycura, or orminumib.44.Parsley: seventeen remedies24645.Apiastrum, or melissophyllum24746.Olusatrum or Hipposelinon: eleven remedies. Oreoselinon: two remedies. Helioselinon: one remedy24847.Petroselinon: one remedy. Buselinon: one remedyib.48.Ocimum: thirty-five remedies24949.Rocket: twelve remedies25050.Nasturtium: forty-two remedies25151.Rue: eighty-four remedies25252.Wild mint: twenty remedies25653.Mint: forty-one remedies25754.Pennyroyal: twenty-five remedies25955.Wild pennyroyal: seventeen remedies26056.Nep: nine remedies26157.Cummin: forty-eight remedies. Wild cummin: twenty-six remedies26258.Ammi: ten remedies26359.The capparis or caper: eighteen remedies26460.Ligusticum, or lovage: four remedies26561.Cunila bubula: five remediesib.62.Cunila gallinacea, or origanum: five remedies26663.Cunilago: eight remediesib.64.Soft cunila: three remedies. Libanotis: three remediesib.65.Cultivated cunila: three remedies. Mountain cunila: seven remedies26766.Piperitis, or siliquastrum: five remediesib.67.Origanum, onitis, or prasion: six remedies26868.Tragoriganum: nine remediesib.69.Three varieties of Heracleotic origanum: thirty remediesib.70.Dittander: three remedies27071.Gith, or melanthion: twenty-three remediesib.72.Anise: sixty-one remedies27173.Where the best anise is found: various remedies derived from this plant27274.Dill: nine remedies27475.Sacopenium, or sagapenon: thirteen remediesib.76.The white poppy: three remedies. The black poppy: eight remedies. Remarks on sleep. Opium. Remarks in disfavour of the potions known as “anodynes, febrifuges, digestives, and cœliacs.” In what way the juices of these plants are to be collected27577.The poppy called rhœas: two remedies27878.The wild poppy called ceratitis, glaucium, or paralium: six remediesib.79.The wild poppy called heraclium, or aphron: four remedies. Diacodionib.80.The poppy called tithymalon, or paralion: three remedies27981.Porcillaca or purslain, otherwise called peplis: twenty-five remedies28082.Coriander: twenty-one remedies28283.Orage: fourteen remediesib.84.The mallow called malope: thirteen remedies. The mallow called malache: one remedy. The mallow called althæa or plistolochia: fifty-nine remedies28385.Wild lapathum or oxalis, otherwise called lapathum cantherinum, or rumex: one remedy. Hydrolapathum: two remedies. Hippolapathum: six remedies. Oxylapathum: four remedies28786.Cultivated lapathum: twenty-one remedies. Bulapathum: one remedy28887.Mustard, the three kinds of it: forty-four remediesib.88.Adarca: forty-eight remedies29089.Marrubium or prasion, otherwise linostrophon, philopais, or philochares: twenty-nine remediesib.90.Wild thyme: eighteen remedies29291.Sisymbrium or thymbræum: twenty-three remedies29392.Linseed: thirty remedies29493.Blite: six remedies29594.Meum, and meum athamanticum: seven remediesib.95.Fennel: twenty-two remedies29696.Hippomarathron, or myrsineum: five remediesib.97.Hemp: nine remedies29798.Fennel-giant: eight remedies29899.The thistle or scolymos: six remedies299100.The composition of theriacaib.BOOK XXI.AN ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS, AND THOSE USED FOR CHAPLETS MORE PARTICULARLY.1.The nature of flowers and gardens3042.Garlands and chapletsib.3.Who invented the art of making garlands: when they first received the name of “corollæ,” and for what reason3054.Who was the first to give chaplets with leaves of silver and gold. Lemnisci: who was the first to emboss them3065.The great honour in which chaplets were held by the ancientsib.6.The severity of the ancients in reference to chaplets3077.A citizen decked with flowers by the Roman people3088.Plaited chaplets. Needle-work chaplets. Nard-leaf chaplets. Silken chapletsib.9.Authors who have written on flowers. An anecdote relative to Queen Cleopatra and chaplets30910.The rose: twelve varieties of it31011.The lily: four varieties of it31412.The narcissus: three varieties of it31613.How seed is stained to produce tinted flowers31714.How the several varieties of the violet are respectively produced, grown, and cultivated. The three different colours of the violet. The five varieties of the yellow violetib.15.The caltha. The scopa regia31816.The bacchar. The combretum. Asarumib.17.Saffron: in what places it grows best. What flowers were known at the time of the Trojan war31918.The nature of odours32119.The iris32420.The saliunca32521.The polium or teuthrionib.22.Fabrics which rival the colour of flowers32623.The amaranth32724.The cyanos: the holochrysos32825.The petilium: the bellioib.26.The chrysocome, or chrysitis32927.Shrubs, the blossoms of which are used for chapletsib.28.Shrubs, the leaves of which are used for chapletsib.29.The melothron, spiræa, and origanum. The oneorum or cassia; two varieties of it. The melissophyllum or melittæna. The melilote, otherwise known as Campanian garland33030.Three varieties of trefoil: the myophonumib.31.Two varieties of thyme. Plants produced from blossoms and not from seed33132.Conyza33233.The flower of Jove. The hemerocalles. The helenium. The phlox. Plants in which the branches and roots are odoriferous33334.The abrotonum. The adonium: two varieties of it. Plants which reproduce themselves. The leucanthemum33435.Two varieties of the amaracusib.36.The nyctegreton, or chenamyche, or nyctalops33537.Where the melilote is foundib.38.The succession in which flowers blossom: the spring flowers. The violet. The chaplet anemone or phrenion. The herb œnanthe. The melanthium. The helichrysos. The gladiolus. The hyacinth33639.The summer flowers—the lychnis: the tiphyon. Two varieties of the pothos. Two varieties of the orsinum. The vincapervinca or chamædaphne—a plant which is an ever-green33740.The duration of life in the various kinds of flowers33941.Plants which should be sown among flowers for bees. The cerinthaib.42.The maladies of bees, and the remedies for them34043.The food of beesib.44.Poisoned honey, and the remedies to be employed by those who have eaten it34145.Maddening honey34246.Honey that flies will not touch34347.Beehives, and the attention which should be paid to them34448.That bees are sensible of hunger34549.The method of preparing wax. The best kinds of wax. Punic waxib.50.Plants which grow spontaneously: the use made of them by various nations, their nature, and remarkable facts connected with them. The strawberry, the tamnus, and the butcher’s broom. The batis, two varieties of it. The meadow parsnip. The hop34751.The colocasiaib.52.The cichorium. The anthalium or anticellium, or anthyllum. The œtum. The arachidna. The aracos. The candryala. The hypochœris. The caucalis. The anthriscum. The scandix. The tragopogon. The parthenium or leucanthes, amaracus, perdicium, or muralis. The trychnum or strychnum, halicacabum, callias, dorycnion, manicon, peritton, neuras, morio, or moly. The corchorus. The aphace. The acynopos. The epipetron. Plants which never flower. Plants which are always in flower34853.Four varieties of the cnecos35054.Plants of a prickly nature: the erynge, the glycyrrhiza, the tribulus, the anonis, the pheos or stœbe, and the hippophaesib.55.Four varieties of the nettle. The lamium and the scorpio35156.The carduus, the acorna, the phonos, the leucanthos, the chalceos, the cnecos, the polyacanthos, the onopyxos, the helxine, the scolymos, the chamæleon, the tetralix, and acanthice mastiche35357.The cactos: the pternix, pappos, and ascalias35458.The tribulus: the anonis35559.Plants classified according to their stems: the coronopus, the anchusa, the anthemis, the phyllanthes, the crepis, and the lotusib.60.Plants classified according to their leaves. Plants which never lose their leaves: plants which blossom a little at a time: the heliotropium and the adiantum, the remedies derived from which will be mentioned in the following Book35661.The various kinds of eared plants: the stanyops; the alopecuros; the stelephurus, ortyx, or plantago; the thryallis35762.The perdicium. The ornithogaleib.63.Plants which only make their appearance at the end of a year. Plants which begin to blossom at the top. Plants which begin to blossom at the lower part35864.The lappa, a plant which produces within itself. The opuntia, which throws out a root from the leafib.65.The iasione. The chondrylla. The picris, which remains in flower the whole year throughib.66.Plants in which the blossom makes its appearance before thestem. Plants in which the stem appears before the blossom. Plants which blossom three times in the year35967.The cypiros. The thesionib.68.The asphodel, or royal spear. The anthericus or albucusib.69.Six varieties of the rush: four remedies derived from the cypiros36170.The cyperos: fourteen remedies. The cyperis. The cypira36371.The holoschœnus36472.Ten remedies derived from the sweet-scented rush, or teuchitesib.73.Remedies derived from the flowers before mentioned: thirty-two remedies derived from the roseib.74.Twenty-one remedies derived from the lily36675.Sixteen remedies derived from the narcissus36776.Seventeen remedies derived from the violet36877.Seventeen remedies derived from the bacchar. One remedy derived from the combretumib.78.Eight remedies derived from asarum36979.Eight remedies derived from gallic nardib.80.Four remedies derived from the plant called “phu”37081.Twenty remedies derived from saffronib.82.Syrian crocomagna: two remediesib.83.Forty-one remedies derived from the iris: two remedies derived from the saliunca37184.Eighteen remedies derived from the polium37285.Three remedies derived from the holochrysos. Six remedies derived from the chrysocome37386.Twenty-one remedies derived from the melissophyllumib.87.Thirteen remedies derived from the melilote37488.Four remedies derived from the trefoilib.89.Twenty-eight remedies derived from thyme37590.Four remedies derived from the hemerocalles37691.Five remedies derived from the heleniumib.92.Twenty-two remedies derived from the abrotonum37793.One remedy derived from the leucanthemum. Nine remedies derived from the amaracus37894.Ten remedies derived from the anemone or phrenion37995.Six remedies derived from the œnanthe38096.Eleven remedies derived from the helichrysosib.97.Eight remedies derived from the hyacinth38198.Seven remedies derived from the lychnisib.99.Four remedies derived from the vincapervinca382100.Three remedies derived from butcher’s broomib.101.Two remedies derived from the batisib.102.Two remedies derived from the colocasiaib.103.Six remedies derived from the anthyllium or anthyllum383104.Eight remedies derived from the parthenium, leucanthes, or amaracusib.105.Eight remedies derived from the trychnum or strychnum, halicacabum, callias, dorycnion, manicon, neuras, morio, or moly384106.Six remedies derived from the corchorus386107.Three remedies derived from the cnecosib.108.One remedy derived from the pesolutaib.109.An explanation of Greek terms relative to weights and measuresib.BOOK XXII.THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.1.The properties of plants3892.Plants used by nations for the adornment of the personib.3.Employment of plants for dyeing. Explanation of the terms sagmen, verbena, and clarigatio3904.The grass crown: how rarely it has been awarded3925.The only persons that have been presented with this crown3936.The only centurion that has been thus honoured3947.Remedies derived from other chaplet plants3958.The erynge or eryngium3969.The eryngium, called centum capita: thirty remedies39710.The acanos: one remedy39811.The glycyrrhiza or adipsos: fifteen remedies39912.Two varieties of the tribulus: twelve remedies40013.The stœbe or pheos40114.Two varieties of the hippophaes: two remediesib.15.The nettle: sixty-one remedies40216.The lamium: seven remedies40417.The scorpio, two kinds of it: one remedy40518.The leucacantha, phyllos, ischias, or polygonatos: four remediesib.19.The helxine: twelve remedies40620.The perdicium, parthenium, urceolaris, or astercum: eleven remedies40721.The chamæleon, ixias, ulophonon, or cynozolon; two varieties of it: twelve remediesib.22.The coronopus40923.The anchusa: fourteen remediesib.24.The pseudoanchusa, echis, or doris: three remedies41025.The onochilon, archebion, onochelis, rhexia, or enchrysa: thirty remediesib.26.The anthemis, leucanthemis, leucanthemum, chamæmelum, or melanthium; three varieties of it: eleven remedies41127.The lotus plant: four remedies41228.The lotometra: two remediesib.29.The heliotropium, helioscopium, or verrucaria: twelve remedies. The heliotropium, tricoccum, or scorpiuron: fourteen remedies41330.The adiantum, callitrichos, trichomanes, polytrichos, or saxifragum; two varieties of it: twenty-eight remedies41531.The picris: one remedy. The thesion: one remedy41732.The asphodel: fifty-one remediesib.33.The halimon: fourteen remedies41934.The acanthus, pæderos, or melamphyllos: five remedies42135.The bupleuron: five remediesib.36.The buprestis: one remedy42237.The elaphoboscon: nine remediesib.38.The scandix: nine remedies. The anthriscum: two remedies42339.The iasione: four remediesib.40.The caucalis: twelve remedies42441.The sium: eleven remediesib.42.The sillybum42543.The scolymos or limonia: five remediesib.44.The sonchos: two varieties: fifteen remedies42645.The condrion or chondrylla: six remedies42746.Mushrooms; peculiarities of their growth42847.Fungi; signs by which the venomous kinds may be recognized: nine remedies42948.Silphium: seven remedies43149.Laser: thirty-nine remedies43250.Propolis: five remedies43451.The various influences of different aliments upon the disposition43552.Hydromel: eighteen remedies43653.Honied wine: six remedies43754.Melitites: three remedies43855.Wax: eight remediesib.56.Remarks in disparagement of medicinal compositions43957.Remedies derived from grain. Siligo: one remedy. Wheat: one remedy. Chaff: two remedies. Spelt: one remedy. Bran: one remedy. Olyra or arinca: two remedies44058.The various kinds of meal: twenty-eight remedies44159.Polenta: eight remedies44260.Fine flour: five remedies. Puls: one remedy. Meal used for pasting papyrus, one remedyib.61.Alica: six remedies44362.Millet: six remedies44463.Panic: four remediesib.64.Sesame: seven remedies. Sesamoides: three remedies. Anticyricum: three remediesib.65.Barley: nine remedies. Mouse-barley, by the Greeks called phœnice: one remedy44566.Ptisan: four remedies44667.Amylum: eight remedies. Oats: one remedyib.68.Bread: twenty-one remedies44769.Beans: sixteen remediesib.70.Lentils: seventeen remedies44871.The elelisphacos, sphacos, or salvia: thirteen remedies44972.The chickpea and the chicheling vetch: twenty-three remedies45073.The fitch: twenty remedies45174.Lupines: thirty-five remedies45275.Irio or erysimum, by the Gauls called vela: fifteen remedies45376.Horminum: six remedies45477.Darnel: five remediesib.78.The plant miliaria: one remedy45579.Bromos: one remedyib.80.Orobanche or cynomorion: one remedyib.81.Remedies for injuries inflicted by insects which breed among leguminous plantsib.82.The use made of the yeast of zythum456BOOK XXIII.THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.1.Introduction4572.The vineib.3.The leaves and shoots of the vine: seven remedies4584.Omphacium extracted from the vine: fourteen remedies4595.Œnanthe: twenty-one remedies4606.Grapes, fresh gathered4617.Various kinds of preserved grapes: eleven remediesib.8.Cuttings of the vine: one remedy4629.Grape-stones: six remediesib.10.Grape-husks: eight remedies46311.The grapes of the theriaca: four remediesib.12.Raisins, or astaphis: fourteen remediesib.13.The astaphis agria, otherwise called staphis or taminia: twelve remedies46414.The labrusca, or wild vine: twelve remedies46515.The salicastrum: twelve remediesib.16.The white vine, otherwise called ampeloleuce, staphyle, melothron, psilotrum, archezostis, cedrostis, or madon: thirty-one remedies46617.The black vine, otherwise called bryonia, chironia, gynæcanthe, or apronia: thirty-five remedies46818.Must: fifteen remediesib.19.Particulars relative to wine46920.The Surrentine wines: three remedies. The Alban wines: two remedies. The Falernian wines: six remedies47021.The Setine wines; one observation upon them. The Statan wines; one observation upon them. The Signian wines: one remedy47122.Other wines: sixty-four remediesib.23.Sixty-one observations relative to wine47324.In what maladies wine should be administered; how it should be administered, and at what times47425.Ninety-one observations with reference to wine47726.Artificial winesib.27.Vinegar: twenty-eight remedies47828.Squill vinegar: seventeen remedies48029.Oxymeli: seven remedies48130.Sapa: seven remediesib.31.Lees of wine: twelve remedies48232.Lees of vinegar: seventeen remedies48333.Lees of sapa: four remedies48434.The leaves of the olive-tree: twenty-three remediesib.35.The blossom of the olive: four remediesib.36.White olives: four remedies. Black olives: three remedies48537.Amurca of olives: twenty-one remedies48638.The leaves of the wild olive: sixteen remedies48739.Omphacium: three remedies48840.Oil of œnanthe: twenty-eight remediesib.41.Castor oil: sixteen remedies48942.Oil of almonds: sixteen remedies49043.Oil of laurel: nine remediesib.44.Oil of myrtle: twenty remediesib.45.Oil of chamæmyrsine, or oxymyrsine; oil of cypros; oil of citrus; oil of walnuts; oil of cnidium; oil of mastich; oil of balanus; various remedies49146.The cyprus, and the oil extracted from it; sixteen remedies. Gleucinum: one remedy49247.Oil of balsamum: fifteen remediesib.48.Malobathrum: five remedies49349.Oil of henbane: two remedies. Oil of lupines: one remedy. Oil of narcissus: one remedy. Oil of radishes: five remedies. Oil of sesame: three remedies. Oil of lilies: three remedies. Oil of Selga: one remedy. Oil of Iguvium: one remedyib.50.Elæomeli: two remedies. Oil of pitch: two remedies49451.The palm: nine remediesib.52.The palm which produces the myrobalanum: three remedies49553.The palm called elate: sixteen remediesib.54.Remedies derived from the blossoms, leaves, fruit, branches, bark, juices, roots, wood, and ashes of various kinds of trees. Six observations upon apples. Twenty-two observations upon quinces. One observation upon struthea49655.The sweet apples called melimela: six observations upon them. Sour apples: four observations upon them49756.Citrons: five observations upon them49857.Punic apples, or pomegranates: twenty-six remediesib.58.The composition called stomatice: fourteen remedies49959.Cytinus: eight remedies50060.Balaustium: twelve remediesib.61.The wild pomegranate50162.Pears: twelve observations upon them50263.Figs: one hundred and eleven observations upon themib.64.The wild fig: forty-two observations upon it50565.The herb crineon: three remedies50766.Plums: four observations upon themib.67.Peaches: two remedies50868.Wild plums; two remediesib.69.The lichen on plum-trees; two remediesib.70.Mulberries; thirty-nine remediesib.71.The medicament called stomatice, arteriace, or panchrestos; four remedies50972.Cherries: five observations upon them51173.Medlars: two remedies. Sorbs: two remedies51274.Pine-nuts: thirteen remediesib.75.Almonds: twenty-nine remediesib.76.Greek nuts: one remedy51377.Walnuts: twenty-four remedies. The Mithridatic antidote51478.Hazel-nuts: three observations upon them. Pistachio-nuts: eight observations upon them. Chesnuts: five observations upon them51579.Carobs: five observations upon them. The cornel: one remedy. The fruit of the arbutus51680.The laurel: sixty-nine observations upon itib.81.Myrtle: sixty observations upon it51982.Myrtidanum: thirteen remedies52183.The wild myrtle, otherwise called oxymyrsine, or chamæmyrsine, and the ruscus: six remediesib.
Taste of the ancients for agriculture
When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome
The jugerum of land
How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably low price
Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture
Points to be observed in buying land
The proper arrangements for a farm-house
Maxims of the ancients on agriculture
The different kinds of grain
The history of the various kinds of grain
Spelt
Wheat
Barley: rice
Polenta
Ptisan
Tragum
Amylum
The nature of barley
Arinca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East
Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour
The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat
Sesame. Erysimum or irio. Horminum
The mode of grinding corn
Millet
Panic
The various kinds of leaven
The method of making bread: origin of the art
When bakers were first introduced at Rome
Alica
The leguminous plants: the bean
Lentils. Pease
The several kinds of chick-pease
The kidney-bean
The rape
The turnip
The lupine
The vetch
The fitch
Silicia
Secale or asia
Farrago: the cracca
Ocinum: ervilia
Lucerne
The diseases of grain: the oat
The best remedies for the diseases of grain
The crops that should be sown in the different soils
The different systems of cultivation employed by various nations
The various kinds of ploughs
The mode of ploughing
The methods of harrowing, stubbing, and hoeing, employed for each description of grain. The use of the harrow
Extreme fertility of soil
The method of sowing more than once in the year
The manuring of land
How to ascertain the quality of seed
What quantity of each kind of grain is requisite for sowing a jugerum
The proper times for sowing
Arrangement of the stars according to the terrestrial days and nights
The rising and setting of the stars
The epochs of the seasons
The proper time for winter sowing
When to sow the leguminous plants and the poppy
Work to be done in the country in each month respectively
Work to be done at the winter solstice
Work to be done between the winter solstice and the prevalence of the west winds
Work to be done between the prevalence of the west winds and the vernal equinox
Work to be done after the vernal equinox
Work to be done after the rising of the Vergiliæ: hay-making
The summer solstice
Causes of sterility
Remedies against these noxious influences
Work to be done after the summer solstice
The harvest
The methods of storing corn
The vintage, and the works of autumn
The revolutions of the moon
The theory of the winds
The laying out of lands according to the points of the wind
Prognostics derived from the sun
Prognostics derived from the moon
Prognostics derived from the stars
Prognostics derived from thunder
Prognostics derived from clouds
Prognostics derived from mists
Prognostics derived from fire kindled by man
Prognostics derived from water
Prognostics derived from tempests
Prognostics derived from aquatic animals and birds
Prognostics derived from quadrupeds
Prognostics derived from plants
Prognostics derived from food
The nature of flax—marvellous facts relative thereto
How flax is sown: twenty-seven principal varieties of it
The mode of preparing flax
Linen made of asbestos
At what period linen was first dyed
At what period coloured awnings were first employed in the theatres
The nature of spartum
The mode of preparing spartum
At what period spartum was first employed
The bulb eriophorus
Plants which spring up and grow without a root—plants which grow, but cannot be reproduced from seed
Misy; iton; and geranion
Particulars connected with the truffle
The pezica
Laserpitium, laser, and maspetum
Magydaris
Madder
The radicula
The pleasures of the garden
The laying out of garden ground
Plants other than grain and shrubs
The natural history of twenty different kinds of plants grown in gardens—the proper methods to be followed in sowing them respectively
Vegetables of a cartilaginous nature—cucumbers. Pepones
Gourds
Rape. Turnips
Radishes
Parsnips
The skirret
Elecampane
Bulbs, squills, and arum
The roots, flowers, and leaves of all these plants. Garden plants which lose their leaves
Varieties of the onion
The leek
Garlic
The number of days required for the respective plants to make their appearance above ground
The nature of the various seeds
Plants of which there is but a single kind. Plants of which there are several kinds
The nature and varieties of twenty-three garden plants. The lettuce; its different varieties
Endive
Beet: four varieties of it
Cabbages; the several varieties of them
Wild and cultivated asparagus
Thistles
Other plants that are sown in the garden: ocimum; rocket; and nasturtium
Rue
Parsley
Mint
Olusatrum
The caraway
Lovage
Dittander
Gith
The poppy
Other plants which require to be sown at the autumnal equinox
Wild thyme; sisymbrium
Four kinds of ferulaceous plants. Hemp
The maladies of garden plants
The proper remedies for these maladies. How ants are best destroyed. The best remedies against caterpillars and flies
What plants are benefitted by salt water
The proper method of watering gardens
The juices and flavours of garden herbs
Piperitis, libanotis, and smyrnium
Introduction
The wild cucumber: twenty-six remedies
Elaterium: twenty-seven remedies
The anguine or erratic cucumber: five remedies
The cultivated cucumber: nine remedies
Pepones: eleven remedies
The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus: one remedy
The colocynthis: ten remedies
Rape: nine remedies
Wild rape: one remedy
Turnips; those known as bunion and bunias: five remedies
The wild radish, or armoracia: one remedy
The cultivated radish: forty-three remedies
The parsnip: five remedies. The hibiscum, wild mallow, or plistolochia: eleven remedies
The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remedies
Gingidion: one remedy
The skirret: eleven remedies
Sile, or hartwort: twelve remedies
Elecampane: eleven remedies
Onions: twenty-seven remedies
Cutleek: thirty-two remedies
Bulbed leek: thirty-nine remedies
Garlic: sixty-one remedies
The lettuce: forty-two remedies. The goat-lettuce: four remedies
Cæsapon: one remedy. Isatis: one remedy. The wild lettuce: seven remedies
Hawk-weed: seventeen remedies
Beet: twenty-four remedies
Limonion, or neuroides: three remedies
Endive: three remedies
Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration or ambula: twelve remedies
Hedypnoïs: four remedies
Seris, three varieties of it: seven remedies borrowed from it
The cabbage: eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Cato
Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto
Cabbage-sprouts
The wild cabbage: thirty-seven remedies
The lapsana: one remedy
The sea-cabbage: one remedy
The squill: twenty-three remedies
Bulbs: thirty remedies
Bulbine: one remedy. Bulb emetic
Garden asparagus; with the next, twenty-four remedies
Corruda, libycura, or orminum
Parsley: seventeen remedies
Apiastrum, or melissophyllum
Olusatrum or Hipposelinon: eleven remedies. Oreoselinon: two remedies. Helioselinon: one remedy
Petroselinon: one remedy. Buselinon: one remedy
Ocimum: thirty-five remedies
Rocket: twelve remedies
Nasturtium: forty-two remedies
Rue: eighty-four remedies
Wild mint: twenty remedies
Mint: forty-one remedies
Pennyroyal: twenty-five remedies
Wild pennyroyal: seventeen remedies
Nep: nine remedies
Cummin: forty-eight remedies. Wild cummin: twenty-six remedies
Ammi: ten remedies
The capparis or caper: eighteen remedies
Ligusticum, or lovage: four remedies
Cunila bubula: five remedies
Cunila gallinacea, or origanum: five remedies
Cunilago: eight remedies
Soft cunila: three remedies. Libanotis: three remedies
Cultivated cunila: three remedies. Mountain cunila: seven remedies
Piperitis, or siliquastrum: five remedies
Origanum, onitis, or prasion: six remedies
Tragoriganum: nine remedies
Three varieties of Heracleotic origanum: thirty remedies
Dittander: three remedies
Gith, or melanthion: twenty-three remedies
Anise: sixty-one remedies
Where the best anise is found: various remedies derived from this plant
Dill: nine remedies
Sacopenium, or sagapenon: thirteen remedies
The white poppy: three remedies. The black poppy: eight remedies. Remarks on sleep. Opium. Remarks in disfavour of the potions known as “anodynes, febrifuges, digestives, and cœliacs.” In what way the juices of these plants are to be collected
The poppy called rhœas: two remedies
The wild poppy called ceratitis, glaucium, or paralium: six remedies
The wild poppy called heraclium, or aphron: four remedies. Diacodion
The poppy called tithymalon, or paralion: three remedies
Porcillaca or purslain, otherwise called peplis: twenty-five remedies
Coriander: twenty-one remedies
Orage: fourteen remedies
The mallow called malope: thirteen remedies. The mallow called malache: one remedy. The mallow called althæa or plistolochia: fifty-nine remedies
Wild lapathum or oxalis, otherwise called lapathum cantherinum, or rumex: one remedy. Hydrolapathum: two remedies. Hippolapathum: six remedies. Oxylapathum: four remedies
Cultivated lapathum: twenty-one remedies. Bulapathum: one remedy
Mustard, the three kinds of it: forty-four remedies
Adarca: forty-eight remedies
Marrubium or prasion, otherwise linostrophon, philopais, or philochares: twenty-nine remedies
Wild thyme: eighteen remedies
Sisymbrium or thymbræum: twenty-three remedies
Linseed: thirty remedies
Blite: six remedies
Meum, and meum athamanticum: seven remedies
Fennel: twenty-two remedies
Hippomarathron, or myrsineum: five remedies
Hemp: nine remedies
Fennel-giant: eight remedies
The thistle or scolymos: six remedies
The composition of theriaca
The nature of flowers and gardens
Garlands and chaplets
Who invented the art of making garlands: when they first received the name of “corollæ,” and for what reason
Who was the first to give chaplets with leaves of silver and gold. Lemnisci: who was the first to emboss them
The great honour in which chaplets were held by the ancients
The severity of the ancients in reference to chaplets
A citizen decked with flowers by the Roman people
Plaited chaplets. Needle-work chaplets. Nard-leaf chaplets. Silken chaplets
Authors who have written on flowers. An anecdote relative to Queen Cleopatra and chaplets
The rose: twelve varieties of it
The lily: four varieties of it
The narcissus: three varieties of it
How seed is stained to produce tinted flowers
How the several varieties of the violet are respectively produced, grown, and cultivated. The three different colours of the violet. The five varieties of the yellow violet
The caltha. The scopa regia
The bacchar. The combretum. Asarum
Saffron: in what places it grows best. What flowers were known at the time of the Trojan war
The nature of odours
The iris
The saliunca
The polium or teuthrion
Fabrics which rival the colour of flowers
The amaranth
The cyanos: the holochrysos
The petilium: the bellio
The chrysocome, or chrysitis
Shrubs, the blossoms of which are used for chaplets
Shrubs, the leaves of which are used for chaplets
The melothron, spiræa, and origanum. The oneorum or cassia; two varieties of it. The melissophyllum or melittæna. The melilote, otherwise known as Campanian garland
Three varieties of trefoil: the myophonum
Two varieties of thyme. Plants produced from blossoms and not from seed
Conyza
The flower of Jove. The hemerocalles. The helenium. The phlox. Plants in which the branches and roots are odoriferous
The abrotonum. The adonium: two varieties of it. Plants which reproduce themselves. The leucanthemum
Two varieties of the amaracus
The nyctegreton, or chenamyche, or nyctalops
Where the melilote is found
The succession in which flowers blossom: the spring flowers. The violet. The chaplet anemone or phrenion. The herb œnanthe. The melanthium. The helichrysos. The gladiolus. The hyacinth
The summer flowers—the lychnis: the tiphyon. Two varieties of the pothos. Two varieties of the orsinum. The vincapervinca or chamædaphne—a plant which is an ever-green
The duration of life in the various kinds of flowers
Plants which should be sown among flowers for bees. The cerintha
The maladies of bees, and the remedies for them
The food of bees
Poisoned honey, and the remedies to be employed by those who have eaten it
Maddening honey
Honey that flies will not touch
Beehives, and the attention which should be paid to them
That bees are sensible of hunger
The method of preparing wax. The best kinds of wax. Punic wax
Plants which grow spontaneously: the use made of them by various nations, their nature, and remarkable facts connected with them. The strawberry, the tamnus, and the butcher’s broom. The batis, two varieties of it. The meadow parsnip. The hop
The colocasia
The cichorium. The anthalium or anticellium, or anthyllum. The œtum. The arachidna. The aracos. The candryala. The hypochœris. The caucalis. The anthriscum. The scandix. The tragopogon. The parthenium or leucanthes, amaracus, perdicium, or muralis. The trychnum or strychnum, halicacabum, callias, dorycnion, manicon, peritton, neuras, morio, or moly. The corchorus. The aphace. The acynopos. The epipetron. Plants which never flower. Plants which are always in flower
Four varieties of the cnecos
Plants of a prickly nature: the erynge, the glycyrrhiza, the tribulus, the anonis, the pheos or stœbe, and the hippophaes
Four varieties of the nettle. The lamium and the scorpio
The carduus, the acorna, the phonos, the leucanthos, the chalceos, the cnecos, the polyacanthos, the onopyxos, the helxine, the scolymos, the chamæleon, the tetralix, and acanthice mastiche
The cactos: the pternix, pappos, and ascalias
The tribulus: the anonis
Plants classified according to their stems: the coronopus, the anchusa, the anthemis, the phyllanthes, the crepis, and the lotus
Plants classified according to their leaves. Plants which never lose their leaves: plants which blossom a little at a time: the heliotropium and the adiantum, the remedies derived from which will be mentioned in the following Book
The various kinds of eared plants: the stanyops; the alopecuros; the stelephurus, ortyx, or plantago; the thryallis
The perdicium. The ornithogale
Plants which only make their appearance at the end of a year. Plants which begin to blossom at the top. Plants which begin to blossom at the lower part
The lappa, a plant which produces within itself. The opuntia, which throws out a root from the leaf
The iasione. The chondrylla. The picris, which remains in flower the whole year through
Plants in which the blossom makes its appearance before thestem. Plants in which the stem appears before the blossom. Plants which blossom three times in the year
The cypiros. The thesion
The asphodel, or royal spear. The anthericus or albucus
Six varieties of the rush: four remedies derived from the cypiros
The cyperos: fourteen remedies. The cyperis. The cypira
The holoschœnus
Ten remedies derived from the sweet-scented rush, or teuchites
Remedies derived from the flowers before mentioned: thirty-two remedies derived from the rose
Twenty-one remedies derived from the lily
Sixteen remedies derived from the narcissus
Seventeen remedies derived from the violet
Seventeen remedies derived from the bacchar. One remedy derived from the combretum
Eight remedies derived from asarum
Eight remedies derived from gallic nard
Four remedies derived from the plant called “phu”
Twenty remedies derived from saffron
Syrian crocomagna: two remedies
Forty-one remedies derived from the iris: two remedies derived from the saliunca
Eighteen remedies derived from the polium
Three remedies derived from the holochrysos. Six remedies derived from the chrysocome
Twenty-one remedies derived from the melissophyllum
Thirteen remedies derived from the melilote
Four remedies derived from the trefoil
Twenty-eight remedies derived from thyme
Four remedies derived from the hemerocalles
Five remedies derived from the helenium
Twenty-two remedies derived from the abrotonum
One remedy derived from the leucanthemum. Nine remedies derived from the amaracus
Ten remedies derived from the anemone or phrenion
Six remedies derived from the œnanthe
Eleven remedies derived from the helichrysos
Eight remedies derived from the hyacinth
Seven remedies derived from the lychnis
Four remedies derived from the vincapervinca
Three remedies derived from butcher’s broom
Two remedies derived from the batis
Two remedies derived from the colocasia
Six remedies derived from the anthyllium or anthyllum
Eight remedies derived from the parthenium, leucanthes, or amaracus
Eight remedies derived from the trychnum or strychnum, halicacabum, callias, dorycnion, manicon, neuras, morio, or moly
Six remedies derived from the corchorus
Three remedies derived from the cnecos
One remedy derived from the pesoluta
An explanation of Greek terms relative to weights and measures
The properties of plants
Plants used by nations for the adornment of the person
Employment of plants for dyeing. Explanation of the terms sagmen, verbena, and clarigatio
The grass crown: how rarely it has been awarded
The only persons that have been presented with this crown
The only centurion that has been thus honoured
Remedies derived from other chaplet plants
The erynge or eryngium
The eryngium, called centum capita: thirty remedies
The acanos: one remedy
The glycyrrhiza or adipsos: fifteen remedies
Two varieties of the tribulus: twelve remedies
The stœbe or pheos
Two varieties of the hippophaes: two remedies
The nettle: sixty-one remedies
The lamium: seven remedies
The scorpio, two kinds of it: one remedy
The leucacantha, phyllos, ischias, or polygonatos: four remedies
The helxine: twelve remedies
The perdicium, parthenium, urceolaris, or astercum: eleven remedies
The chamæleon, ixias, ulophonon, or cynozolon; two varieties of it: twelve remedies
The coronopus
The anchusa: fourteen remedies
The pseudoanchusa, echis, or doris: three remedies
The onochilon, archebion, onochelis, rhexia, or enchrysa: thirty remedies
The anthemis, leucanthemis, leucanthemum, chamæmelum, or melanthium; three varieties of it: eleven remedies
The lotus plant: four remedies
The lotometra: two remedies
The heliotropium, helioscopium, or verrucaria: twelve remedies. The heliotropium, tricoccum, or scorpiuron: fourteen remedies
The adiantum, callitrichos, trichomanes, polytrichos, or saxifragum; two varieties of it: twenty-eight remedies
The picris: one remedy. The thesion: one remedy
The asphodel: fifty-one remedies
The halimon: fourteen remedies
The acanthus, pæderos, or melamphyllos: five remedies
The bupleuron: five remedies
The buprestis: one remedy
The elaphoboscon: nine remedies
The scandix: nine remedies. The anthriscum: two remedies
The iasione: four remedies
The caucalis: twelve remedies
The sium: eleven remedies
The sillybum
The scolymos or limonia: five remedies
The sonchos: two varieties: fifteen remedies
The condrion or chondrylla: six remedies
Mushrooms; peculiarities of their growth
Fungi; signs by which the venomous kinds may be recognized: nine remedies
Silphium: seven remedies
Laser: thirty-nine remedies
Propolis: five remedies
The various influences of different aliments upon the disposition
Hydromel: eighteen remedies
Honied wine: six remedies
Melitites: three remedies
Wax: eight remedies
Remarks in disparagement of medicinal compositions
Remedies derived from grain. Siligo: one remedy. Wheat: one remedy. Chaff: two remedies. Spelt: one remedy. Bran: one remedy. Olyra or arinca: two remedies
The various kinds of meal: twenty-eight remedies
Polenta: eight remedies
Fine flour: five remedies. Puls: one remedy. Meal used for pasting papyrus, one remedy
Alica: six remedies
Millet: six remedies
Panic: four remedies
Sesame: seven remedies. Sesamoides: three remedies. Anticyricum: three remedies
Barley: nine remedies. Mouse-barley, by the Greeks called phœnice: one remedy
Ptisan: four remedies
Amylum: eight remedies. Oats: one remedy
Bread: twenty-one remedies
Beans: sixteen remedies
Lentils: seventeen remedies
The elelisphacos, sphacos, or salvia: thirteen remedies
The chickpea and the chicheling vetch: twenty-three remedies
The fitch: twenty remedies
Lupines: thirty-five remedies
Irio or erysimum, by the Gauls called vela: fifteen remedies
Horminum: six remedies
Darnel: five remedies
The plant miliaria: one remedy
Bromos: one remedy
Orobanche or cynomorion: one remedy
Remedies for injuries inflicted by insects which breed among leguminous plants
The use made of the yeast of zythum
Introduction
The vine
The leaves and shoots of the vine: seven remedies
Omphacium extracted from the vine: fourteen remedies
Œnanthe: twenty-one remedies
Grapes, fresh gathered
Various kinds of preserved grapes: eleven remedies
Cuttings of the vine: one remedy
Grape-stones: six remedies
Grape-husks: eight remedies
The grapes of the theriaca: four remedies
Raisins, or astaphis: fourteen remedies
The astaphis agria, otherwise called staphis or taminia: twelve remedies
The labrusca, or wild vine: twelve remedies
The salicastrum: twelve remedies
The white vine, otherwise called ampeloleuce, staphyle, melothron, psilotrum, archezostis, cedrostis, or madon: thirty-one remedies
The black vine, otherwise called bryonia, chironia, gynæcanthe, or apronia: thirty-five remedies
Must: fifteen remedies
Particulars relative to wine
The Surrentine wines: three remedies. The Alban wines: two remedies. The Falernian wines: six remedies
The Setine wines; one observation upon them. The Statan wines; one observation upon them. The Signian wines: one remedy
Other wines: sixty-four remedies
Sixty-one observations relative to wine
In what maladies wine should be administered; how it should be administered, and at what times
Ninety-one observations with reference to wine
Artificial wines
Vinegar: twenty-eight remedies
Squill vinegar: seventeen remedies
Oxymeli: seven remedies
Sapa: seven remedies
Lees of wine: twelve remedies
Lees of vinegar: seventeen remedies
Lees of sapa: four remedies
The leaves of the olive-tree: twenty-three remedies
The blossom of the olive: four remedies
White olives: four remedies. Black olives: three remedies
Amurca of olives: twenty-one remedies
The leaves of the wild olive: sixteen remedies
Omphacium: three remedies
Oil of œnanthe: twenty-eight remedies
Castor oil: sixteen remedies
Oil of almonds: sixteen remedies
Oil of laurel: nine remedies
Oil of myrtle: twenty remedies
Oil of chamæmyrsine, or oxymyrsine; oil of cypros; oil of citrus; oil of walnuts; oil of cnidium; oil of mastich; oil of balanus; various remedies
The cyprus, and the oil extracted from it; sixteen remedies. Gleucinum: one remedy
Oil of balsamum: fifteen remedies
Malobathrum: five remedies
Oil of henbane: two remedies. Oil of lupines: one remedy. Oil of narcissus: one remedy. Oil of radishes: five remedies. Oil of sesame: three remedies. Oil of lilies: three remedies. Oil of Selga: one remedy. Oil of Iguvium: one remedy
Elæomeli: two remedies. Oil of pitch: two remedies
The palm: nine remedies
The palm which produces the myrobalanum: three remedies
The palm called elate: sixteen remedies
Remedies derived from the blossoms, leaves, fruit, branches, bark, juices, roots, wood, and ashes of various kinds of trees. Six observations upon apples. Twenty-two observations upon quinces. One observation upon struthea
The sweet apples called melimela: six observations upon them. Sour apples: four observations upon them
Citrons: five observations upon them
Punic apples, or pomegranates: twenty-six remedies
The composition called stomatice: fourteen remedies
Cytinus: eight remedies
Balaustium: twelve remedies
The wild pomegranate
Pears: twelve observations upon them
Figs: one hundred and eleven observations upon them
The wild fig: forty-two observations upon it
The herb crineon: three remedies
Plums: four observations upon them
Peaches: two remedies
Wild plums; two remedies
The lichen on plum-trees; two remedies
Mulberries; thirty-nine remedies
The medicament called stomatice, arteriace, or panchrestos; four remedies
Cherries: five observations upon them
Medlars: two remedies. Sorbs: two remedies
Pine-nuts: thirteen remedies
Almonds: twenty-nine remedies
Greek nuts: one remedy
Walnuts: twenty-four remedies. The Mithridatic antidote
Hazel-nuts: three observations upon them. Pistachio-nuts: eight observations upon them. Chesnuts: five observations upon them
Carobs: five observations upon them. The cornel: one remedy. The fruit of the arbutus
The laurel: sixty-nine observations upon it
Myrtle: sixty observations upon it
Myrtidanum: thirteen remedies
The wild myrtle, otherwise called oxymyrsine, or chamæmyrsine, and the ruscus: six remedies