BOOK I 



Thasos, Apollodorus of Lemnos, Aristophanes of 

 Miletus, Antigonus of Cumae, Agathocles of Chios, 

 ApoUonius of Pergamum, Aristander of Athens, 

 Bacchius of Miletus, Bion of SoH, Chaereas of Athens, 

 Chaeristus ditto, Diodorus of Priene, Dinon of Colo- 

 phon, Epigenes of Rhodes, Evagon of Thasos, 

 Euphronius of Athens, Androtion On Agriculiure, 

 Aeschrion ditto, Dionysius's translation of Mago, 

 Diophanes's summary of Dionysius, Asclepiades the 

 physician, Erasistratus ditto, Commiades On Making 

 Wine, Aristomachus ditto, Hicesius ditto, Onesicritus, 

 King Juba. 



Book XVI. Contents : forest trees, their various 

 natures. (i f.) Races that have no trees ; remarkable 

 trees in the North. (iii-xiii) Acorn-bearing trees : 

 the civic wreath ; origin of wreaths ; wreath of 

 foUage, on whom bestowed ; 13 kinds of acorns ; 

 the beech ; the other acorn-bearing trees ; charcoal ; 

 the oak-apple ; how many fruits beside the acorn 

 borne by the same trees; catkin, cochineal-berry, 

 larch-fungus. (xiv) Trees whose bark is utiUzed. 

 (xv-xx) Roof-shingles : stone-pine, wild pine, spruce, 

 silver-fir, larch, pitch-pine, yew. (xxi-iii) Liquid 

 pitch, methods of making ; cedar-oil, methods of 

 making ; wax-pitch, methods of making ; resin, 

 methods of boiling ; thick-pitch. (xxiv-ix) Trees 

 of value for timber : ash, 4 kinds ; lime, 2 kinds ; 

 maple, 10 kinds ; growth on the maple, maple- 

 fungus ; pistachio tree ; box, 3 kinds ; elm, 4 kinds. 

 (xxx f.) Nature of trees classified by habitat : 

 those that grow on momitains, on plains, on dry 

 soils, in water, in several habitats. (xxxii) Classi- 

 fication. (xxxiii-viii) Non-deciduous trees : rhodo- 

 dendron ; partially deciduous trees ; regions where 

 all trees evergreen ; natuie of deciduous foliage ; 



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