Vlll CONTENTS. 



Chap. Fa#e 



3. Diapasma, magma ; the mode of testing unguents 166 



4. The excesses to which luxury has run in unguents lo7 



5. When unguents were first used by the Romans .. ..- .. .. 168 



6. The palm-tree . ..169 



7. The nature of the palm-tree 170 



8. How the palm-tree is planted 172 



9. The different varieties of palm-trees, and their characteristics . . 173 



10. The trees of Syria : the pistacia, the cottana, the damascena, and 



the myxa < .. ..178 



11. The cedar. Trees which have on them the fruit of three years at 



once ib. 



12. The terebinth 179 



13. The sumach-tree ib. 



14. The trees of Egypt. The fig-tree of Alexandria . . . . . . . . 180 



15. The fig-tree of Cyprus 181 



16. The carob-tree ib. 



17. The Persian tree. In what trees the fruits germinate the one 



below the other 182 



18. The cucus 183 



19. The Egyptian thorn . . . . ib. 



20. Nine kinds of gum. The sarcocolla 184 



21. The papyrus : the use of paper : when it was first invented . . 185 



22. The mode of making paper 186 



23. The nine different kinds of paper 187 



24. The mode of testing the goodness of paper 189 



25. The peculiar defects in paper 190 



26. The paste used in the preparation of paper 191 



27. The books of Numa ib. 



28. The trees of Ethiopia 193 



29. The trees of Mount Atlas. The citrus, and the tables made of 



the wood thereof .. .. 194 



30. The points that are desirable or otherwise in these tables . . . . 195 



31. The citron-tree 198, 



32. The lotus ib. 



33. The trees of Cyrenaica. The paliurus 200 



34. Nine varieties of the Punic apple. Balaustium ib. 



35. The trees of Asia and Greece ; the epipactis, the erica, the 



Cnidian grain or thymelsea, pyrosachne, cnestron, orcneoron. . 201 



36. Thetragion: tragacanthe ib. 



37. The tragos or scorpio ; the myrica or brya; the ostrys . . . . 202 



38. The euonymos . . ....." 203 



39. The tree called eon ib. 



40. The andrachle 204 



41. Thecoccygia; the apharce ib. 



42. The ferula ib. 



43. The thapsia 205 



44. The capparis or cynosbaton, otherwise ophiostaphyle . . ... . . 206 



45. The saripha 207 



46. The royal thorn ib. 



47. The cytisus 208 



