XU CONTENTS. 



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Chap. Pa: 



10. The rose: twelve varieties of it 31 



11. The lily : four varieties of it 3l4' 



12. The narcissus : three varieties of it 31f 



13. How seed is stained to produce tinted flowers 31' 



14. 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 31' 



15. The caltha. The scopa regia 31: 



16. The bacchar. The combretum. Asarum il 



17. Saff'ron: in what places it grows best. What flowers were 



known at the time of the Trojan war 31' 



18. The nature of odours 32 



19. The iris , 32 



20. The saliunca 32 



21. The polium or teuthrion .. il 



22. Fabrics which rival the colour of flowers 32 



23. The amaranth 32 



24. The cyanos : the holochrysos 32: 



25. The petilium : the bellio " il 



26. The chrysocome, or chrysitis 32' 



27. Shrubs, the blossoms of which are used for chaplets il 



28. Shrubs, the leaves of which are used for chaplets il 



29. The melothron, spiraea, and origanum. The cneorum or cassia; 



two varieties of it. The melissophyllum or melittsena. The 

 melilote, otherwise known as Campanian garland 33( 



30. Three varieties of trefoil : the myophonum.. .. ?. . .. .. ib 



31. Two varieties of thyme. Plants produced from blossoms and not 



from seed 33 



32. Conyza 33: 



33. The flower of Jove. The hemerocalles. The helenium. The 



phlox. Plants in which the branches and roots are odoriferous 331 



34. The abrotonum. The adonium : two varieties of it. Plants 



which reproduce themselves. The leucanthemum 33^ 



35. Two varieties of the amaracus ib 



36. The nyctegreton, or chenamyche, or nyctalops 33t 



37. "Where the melilote is found ib 



38. The succession in which flowers blossom: the springs flowers. 



The violet. The chaplet anemone or phrenion. The herb 

 oenanthe. The melauthium. The helichrysos. The gladi- 

 olus. The hyacinth 336 



39. The summer flowers — the lychnis : the tiphyon. Two varieties 



of the pothos. Two varieties of the orsinum. The vincaper- 

 vinca or champedaphne — a plant which is an ever-green . . 337 [ 



40. The duration of life in the various kinds of flowers 331 | 



41. Plants which should be sown among flowers for bees. The j 



cerintha ib,\ 



42. The maladies of bees, and the remedies for them 340' / 



43. The food of bees ib.\ 



