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80. The poppy called titbymalon, or paralion : three remedies . . 279 



81. Porcillaca or purslain, otherwise called peplis : twenty-five re- 



medies 280 



82. Coriander: twenty-one remedies, 282 



83. Orage : fourteen remedies ib. 



84. The mallow called malope : thirteen remedies. The mallow 



called malache : one remedy. The mallow called althaea or 



plistolochia : fifty-nine remedies 283 



8o. "Wild lapathum or osalis, otherwise called lapathum canther- 

 inum, or ruraex : one remedy. Hydrolapathum : two reme- 

 dies. Ilippolapathum : six remedies. Oxylapathum : four 



remedies . . 287 



86. Cultivated lapathum : twenty-one remedies. Bulapathum : one 



remedy _ 288 



87. Mustard, the three kinds of it : forty-four remedies . . . . ib. 



88. Adarca : forty-eight remedies 290 



89. Marrubium or prasion, otherwise linostrophon, philopais, or 



philochares : twenty-nine remedies ib. 



90. Wild thyme : eighteen remedies 292 



91. Sisymbrium or tbymbraeum : twenty-three remedies 293 



92. Linseed : thirty remedies 294 



93. Elite : six remedies 295 



94. Meum, and meum athamanticum : seven remedies ib. 



95. Fennel : twenty-two remedies 296 



96. Hipporaarathron, or myrsineum : five remedies ib. 



97. Hemp : nine remedies 297 



98. Fennel-giant : eight remedies 298 



99. The thistle or scolymos : six remedies 299 



00. The composition of theriaca ib. 



BOOK XXI. 



AX ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS, ANB THOSE USED FOR CHAPLET3 IIORE 

 PARTICULARLY. 



1. The nature of flowers and gardens 304 



2. Garlands and chaplets ib. 



3. "Who invented the art of making garlands : when they first re- 



ceived the name of *' corollse," and for what reason . . . . 305 



4. "Who was the first to give chaplets with leaves of silver and 



gold. Lemnisci : who was the first to emboss them . . . . 306 



5. The great honour in which chaplets were held by the ancients ib. 



6. The severity of the ancients in reference to chaplets 307 



7. A citizen decked with fiowers by the Roman people 308 



8. Plaited chaplets. Needle-work chaplets. Nard-leaf chaplets. 



Silken chaplets ib. 



9. Authors who have written on flowers. An anecdote relative to 



Queen Cleopatra and chaplets _ 309 



