BOOK I 



12 varieties; hazelwort; aviomum, amoviis. carda- 

 mon. (xxx-xxxii) The incense-producing distriet, 

 incense-bearing trees ; nature and kinds of incense. 

 (xxxiii-v) Myrrh : trees that produce it ; nature and 

 kinds of myrrh. (xxxvi-xl) Mastic; ladanum, 

 scorbus, styptic, bratus tree ; stobrum tree. (xli) 

 Arabia, why happy. (xUi-xlvii) Cinnamon, cinna- 

 momum, cinnamon-shrub ; wild cinnamon, can- 

 camum, aloe-wood; serichatum, gabaUum; behen- 

 nut ; Egy]Jtian date. (x!viii-lxi) Scented reed, 

 scented rush ; Hammonian gum-tree ; fragrant 

 moss ; cyprus ; calycotome or erysisceptrum ; cat- 

 thyme ; balsam, balsam-juice, balsam-wood ; 

 styrax ; galhanum ; aU-heal ; bear's-foot : cinnamon- 

 leaf ; grape-plant ; moss, vine-flower, wild vine ; 

 fir or larch ; cinnamon comacum. Total : 468 facts, 

 investigations and observatious. 



Authorities ; Marcus Varro, Mucianus, Virgil, 

 Fabianus, Sebosus, Pomponius Mela, Flavius Pro- 

 cilius, Hyginus, Trogus, Claudius Caesar, Cornelius 

 Nepos, Greek Treatise on Medicine by Sextius Niger, 

 Cassius Hemina, Lucius Piso, Tuditanus, Antias. 

 Foreign authorities : Theoplirastus, Herodotus, 

 CalUsthenes, Isogonus,CUtarchus, Anaximenes, Duris, 

 Nearchus, Onesicritus, Polycritus, Olympiodorus, 

 Diognetus, Nicobulus, Anticlides, Chares of Mitylene, 

 Menaechmus, Dorotheus of Athens, Lycus, Antaeus, 

 Ephippus, Dinon, Adimantus, Ptolemy son of 

 Lagus, Marsyas of Macedon, Zoilus of Macedon, 

 Democritus, Amphilochus, Aristomachus, Alexander 

 the Learned, Juba, ApoUodorus On Scents; the phy- 

 sicians Heraclides, Botrys, Archedemus, Dionysius, 

 Democedes, Euphron, Mnesides, Diagoras and loUas; 

 HeracUdes of Tarentum, Xenocrates of Ephesus. 



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