BOOK I 



Book XIII. Contents: On foreign trees. (i-v) 

 Perfumes — when invented; 12 kinds and combi- 

 nations ; ointments, salves, testing of perfumes; per- 

 fume as promoting luxury ; when first in use at Rome. 

 (vi-ix) Palms — their nature ; how planted ; 18 kinds 

 of fruit and noteworthy facts. (x-xii) Trees of Syria : 

 pistachio, small fig, damson, Syrian plum ; cedar ; 

 whattreescarry threeyears' fruitatonce; terebinth; 

 sumac. (xiv-xvi) Trees of Egypt : Alexandrian fig ; 

 Cyprian lig ; Carob. (xvii-xx) TPersiau tree ; 

 what trees produce a successiou of fruit ; cuci 

 palm ; Egyptian thorn ; gum tree, 8 kinds ; 

 Persian giim. (xxi-vii) Papyius ; employment of 

 paper ; when begun ; how manufactured ; 9 kinds ; 

 mode of testing papers ; defects of papers ; paper- 

 glue ; Books of Numa. (xxviii) Trees of Ethiopia. 

 (xxix) Atlantic tree ; citrus-tree ; citrus-wood tables, 

 their merits and defects ; citrus-fruit. (xxxii-iv) 

 Lotus ; trees of Cyrenaica, Chiist's-thorn ; pome- 

 granate, 9 kinds, wild pomegranate. (xxxv-xlvii) 

 Trees of Asia and Greece ; helleborine, heath, seed of 

 Cnidus or altar-plant or carline thistle or fiie-fcam 

 or cnesior or mezereon ; goat-plant, goat-thorn ; 

 goat or scorpion, tamarisk or brya, hop-hornbeam ; 

 euonymus ; lion-tree ; purslane ; cuckoo-plant, tare ; 

 fennel ; Thapsus-shrub ; caper-bush or dog's bush 

 or snake-vine ; saripha ; king's thorn ; tree-medick. 

 (xlviii-lvii) Trees and bushes of the Mediterranean ; 

 of the Red Sea ; of the Indian Ocean ; of Cave- 

 dwellers' Sea — sea-weed, grasson or girdle-plant, 

 sea-lettuce, plait of Isis, Graces' eyeUd. Total 

 468 facts, investigations and observations. 



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