CONTENTS. x i 



CHAP. p 



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



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



medies .................. ' 280 



82. Coriander: twenty-one remedies . ..... 



83. Oragc : fourteen remedies ........ ^ 



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



called malache : one remedy. The mallow called althaea or 

 plistolochia : fifty-nine remedies .......... 283 



:ld lapathum or oxalis, otherwise called lapathum cantherl 

 inum, or rumex : one remedy, llydmlapathiim : two reme- 

 dies. Ilippolapathum : six remedies. Oxylapathum : four 

 remedies ................ 287 



86. Cultivated lapathum : twenty-one remedies/ Biilapathum : one ~' 



remedy .................. 288 



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



88. Adarca : forty-eight remedies .......... * 290 



89. Manrubium or prasion, otherwise linostrophou, ph'ilopais, or 



philochares : twenty-nine remedies .......... # 



90. Wild thyme: eighteen remedies .......... ..' 292 



91. Sisymbrium or thynihra-iim : twenty-three remedies /. .. \ 293 



92. Linseed : thirty remedies ............ m 294 



93. Blite : six remedies ........... * " 295 



: - um, and mcum athamanticum : seven remedies '. ib. 



95. Fennel: twenty-two r. -m, .iirs ........ " 296 



90. Ilippomarathn.n, or myisineum: five remedies. . ib. 



>7. Hemp: nine remedies .............. " 297 



98. Fennel-o-iant : (i^lit remedies ........ * 298 



99, The thistle or scolymos : six remedies . . * 299 

 100. The composition of theriaca ...... . ^ 



BOOK XXL 



AX ACCOUNT OF FLOW Kits, AND THOSE USED FOR CHAPLETS MORE 

 PARTICULARLY. 



1. The nature of flowers and gardens . . . . 304 



2. Garlands and chaplets .......... ' ' " " # 



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



ceived the name of " corollee," arid for what reason . . . . 305 



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



- rn? Lemnisci : who was the first to emboss them . . . . 306 



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



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



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



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



Silken chaplets ........ . ..... ^ 



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



Uueen Cleopatra and chaplets ...... ........ 399 



