CONTENTS. ix 



BOOK XX. 



REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS. 



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1. Introduction ..206 



2. The wild cucumber : twenty-six remedies 207 



3. Elaterium : twenty-seven remedies 208 



4. The anguine or erratic cucumber : five remedies 209 



5. The cultivated cucumber : nine remedies 2i0 



6. Pepones: eleven remedies 211 



7. The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus : one remedy .. 212 



8. The colocynthis : ten remedies ib. 



9. Eape : nine remedies 213 



.0. "Wild rape : one remedy 214 



1. Turnips ; those known as bunion and bunias : five remedies . . ib. 



2. The wild radish, or armoracia : one remedy 215 



.3. The cultivated radish : forty-three remedies ib. 



4. The parsnip : five remedies. The hibiscum, wild mallow, or 



plistolochia : eleven remedies 218 



.5. The staphylinos, or wild parsnip; twenty-two remedies .. .. ib. 



6. Gingidion : one remedy 219 



.7. The skirret : eleven remedies 220 



8. Sile, or hartwort : twelve remedies 221 



9. Elecampane: eleven remedies 222 



!0. Onions ; twenty-seven remedies ib. 



11. Cutleek : thirty-two remedies 223 



!2. Bulbed leek : thirty-nine remedies 225 



13. Garlic; sixty-one remedies ib. 



!4. The lettuce ; forty -two remedies. The goat-lettuce : four re- 

 medies 228 



55. Csesapon : one remedy. Isatis : one remedy. The wild lettuce : 



seven remedies ib. 



!6. Hawk- weed : seventeen remedies 229 



!7. Beet : twenty-four remedies 232 



18. Limonion, or neuroides : three remedies 233 



19. Endive: three remedies ib, 



iO. Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration^ or ambula : 



twelve remedies 234 



;i. Hedypnois : four remedies ib. 



12. Seris, three varieties of it : seven remedies borrowed from it . . 235 

 !3. The cabbage : eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Cato ib. 



''A. Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 237 



15. Cabbage-sprouts 239 



>6. The wild cabbage : thirty-seven remedies 240 



!7. The lapsana : one remedy 241 



•8. The sea-cabbage ; one remedy ib. 



>9. The squill : twenty- three remedies .. ib. 



tO. Bulbs: thirty remedies . . ., 243 



