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sembles the cabbage, but has only two leaves. Polemonia,^' 

 too, boiled in oil, imparts blackness to the hair. 



As for depilatories, I reckon them in the number of cos- 

 metics, fit for women only, though men use them now-a-days. 

 For this purpose archezostis ^* is looked upon as highh' 

 efficacious, as also juice of tithymalos,^° applied with oil 

 every now and then in the sun, or after pulling out the hairs. 

 Hyssop, applied with oil, heals itch-scab in beasts, and side- 

 ritis ^^ is particularly useful for quiuzy in swine. 



But let us now turn to the remaining plants of which we 

 have to speak. 



SuMMAEY. — Remedies, narratives, and observations, one 

 thousand and nineteen. 



BoMAX AUTHORS QUOTED. — M. Varro,^' C. Yalgius,^^ Pom- 

 peius Lenaeus,^^ Sextius Niger*" who wrote in Greek, Julius 

 Bassus*' who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor,*- Cornelius 

 Celsus.*^ 



Foreign authors quoted. — Theophrastus,** Democritus," 

 Juba,*^ Orpheus,*^ Pythagoras,*^ Mago,*^ Menander ^ who wrote 

 the " Biochresta," Mcander,^^ Homer, Hesiod,^^ Musaeus,^^ 

 Sophocles,^* Xanthus,^^ Anaxilaiis.^ 



