BOOK I 



Censor, Domitius Cahinus, Trogus, MeHs<!us, 

 Fabianus, Mucianus, Nigidius, Mamilius, Oppius. 

 Foreign authorities: Aristotle, Democritus, Neo- 

 ptolemus's Production of Honey, Aristomachus 

 ditto, PhiHscus ditto, Nicander, Menecrates, Diony- 

 sius's translation of Mago, Empedocles, Calhmachus, 

 King Attalus, Venomous Aiiimals by Apollodorus, 

 Hippocrates, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Asclepiades, 

 Themiso, Posidonius the Stoic, Menander of Priene, 

 Menander of Heraclea, Euphronius of Athens, 

 Theophrastus, Hesiod, King Philometor. 



Book XH. Contents : trees — their various 

 quahties. (i, ii) In praise of trees. (iii-lxiii) Foreign 

 trees. (iii-vi) Plane — when and whence first intro- 

 duced into Italy ; their nature ; remarkable products ; 

 dwarf planes ; who first introduced the pruning of 

 garden trees. (vii) Assyrian apple, instructions for 

 planting. (viii-xvii) Indian trees; ebony, when 

 first seen at Rome ; its kinds ; Indian thorn ; Indian 

 fig ; beautiful unnamed Indian trees ; Indians' 

 flax-trees; plantain tree, its fruit bananas; pepper 

 trees, kinds of pepper, defective pepper, ginger, 

 nut-leaf, wolf-plant or Chiron's box-thorn, macir, 

 sugar-cane. (xviii f.) Trees of the Arian race, ditto 

 of Gedrosia, ditto of Hyrcania, ditfo of Bactria ; myrrh 

 plaut or gum-plant {nialacha, maJdacum) ; germander. 

 Modes of adulteration, tests and prices specified for 

 all scents or spices. (xx f.) Trees of Persia ; trees of 

 islands in Persian Gulf; cotton-tree. (xxii-iv) 

 Cynas tree ; trees used in East for making hnen ; 

 locahty with no deciduous trees ; modes in which 

 trees form fruits. (xxv-xxix) Costus; nard, its 



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