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14. Poisoned honey, and the remedies to be employed by those who 



have eaten it 341 



[5. Maddening honey 342 



:6. Honey that flies -will not touch 343 



:7. Beehives, and the attention which should be paid to them . . 344 



:8. That bees are sensible of hunger 345 



9. The method of preparing wax. The best kinds of wax. Punic wax. ib, 



>0. 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 347 



il. The colocasia ib. 



>2. The cichorium. The anthalium or anticellium, or anthyllum. 

 The cetum. The arachidna. The aracos. The candryala. 

 The hypochoeris. The caucalis. The anthriscum. The scan- 

 dix. The tragopogon. The parthenium or leucanthes, araa- 

 racus, perdicium, or muralis. The trychnum or strychnum, 

 halicacabum, callias, doryenion, manicon, peritton, neuras, 

 morio, or moly. The corchorus. The aphace. The acyno- 

 pos. The epipetron. Plants which never flower. Plants 

 which are always in flower 348 



13. Four varieties of the cnecos 350 



i4. Plants of a prickly nature : the erynge, the glycyrrhiza, the tri- 



bulus, the anonis, the pheos or stoebe, and^the hippophaes . . ib. 

 >5. Four" varieties of the nettle. The laraium and the scorpio . . 351 

 •6. The carduus, the acorna, the phonos, the leucanthos, the chal- 

 ceos, the cnecos, the polyacanthos, the onopyxos, the helxine, 

 the scolymos, the chamseleon, the tetralix, and acanthice mas- 

 tiche : 353 



7. The cactos : the pternix,pappos, and ascalias 354 



8. The tribulus : the anonis 355 



9. Plants classified according to their stems : the coronopus, the an- 



chusa, the anthemis, the phyllanthes, the crepis, and the lotus ib. 



»0. 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 356 



51. The various kinds of eared plants : the stanyops ; the alopecuros ; 



the stelephurus, ortyx, or plantago ; the thryallis 357 



»2. The perdicium. The ornithogale ib. 



»3. 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 358 



14. The lappa, a plant which produces within itself. The opuntia, 



which throws out a root from the leaf ib. 



'>o. The iasione. The chondrylla. The picris, which remains in 



flower the whole year through ib. 



i6. Plants in which the blossom makes its appearance before the 



