CONTENTS. ix 



BOOK XX. 



REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS. 



CHAP. Page 



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 210 



6. Pepones : eleven remedies % . 211 



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



8. The colocynthis : ten remedies ib. 



9. Rape: nine remedies 213 



10. Wild rape : one remedy 214 



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



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



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



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



plistolochia : eleven remedies 218 



15. The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remedies .. .. ib. 



16. Gingidion : one remedy 219 



17. The skirret : eleven remedies 220 



18. Sile, or hartwort : twelve remedies 221 



19. Elecampane: eleven remedies 222 



20. Onions : twenty-seven remedies ib. 



21. Cutleek : thirty-two remedies 223 



22. Bulbed leek : thirty-nine remedies . . . . 225 



23. Garlic ; sixty-one remedies ib. 



24. The lettuce : forty -two remedies. The goat-lettuce : four re- 



medies 228 



25. Caesapon : one remedy. Isatis : one remedy. The wild lettuce : 



seven remedies ib. 



26. Hawk- weed : seventeen remedies 229 



27. Beet : twenty-four remedies 232 



.28. Limonion, or neuroides : three remedies 233 



29. Endive : three remedies ib. 



30. Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration, or ambula : 



twelve remedies 234 



.31. Hedypno'is : four remedies ib. 



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



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



34. Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 237 



35. Cabbage-sprouts 239 



.36. The wild cabbage : tliirty-seven remedies 240 



37. The lapsana : one remedy 241 



The sea-cabbage ; one remedy ib. 



39. The squill : twenty. three remedies ib. 



40. Bulbs : thirty remedies . . . 243 



