BOOK I 



Dionysius*stranslation of Mago,Diophanes'ssummary 

 of Dionysius, Thales, Eudoxus, PhiHp, Cahppus, 

 Dositheus, Parmeniscus, Meto, Crito, Oenopides, 

 Conon,Euctemon,Harpalus,Hecataeus,Anaximander, 

 Sosigenes, Hipparchus, Aratus, Zoroaster, Archibius. 



Book XIX. Contents : (i-vi) Flax, nature and 

 remarkable properties of ; 27 specially good kinds of ; 

 how grown and how made up ; earliest employment of 

 awnings in the theatre. (vii-ix) Esparto grass, 

 nature of; how made up; when first used. (x) The 

 wool-bearing bulb. (xi-xviii) Plants that spring up 

 and live without root ; plants that spring up and cannot 

 be grown from seed: mushroom, iton, stork's bill; 

 truffles, stalkless mushrooms ; silphium plant, and 

 its juice, leaf and stalk ; madder ; dyers' rocket, 

 (xix-xxi) The charm of gardens ; description of plants 

 other than cereals and shrubs. (xxii-xxxvii) Wature 

 aud kinds and descriptions of 20 garden plants : roots, 

 fljwers, leaves of all these ; deciduous garden plants ; 

 various periods of sprouting ; nature of seeds ; various 

 niodes of sowing ; which of a single kind and which 

 of several kinds. (xxxviii-Iv) Nature and kinds and 

 descriptions of 23 garden plants cultivated for con- 

 diments. (xlviii) Plants springing from an exudation ; 

 (Ivi) Fennel-giant, 4 kinds ; hemp. (Ivii-lix) Diseases 

 of garden plants ; cures ; modes of killing ants ; modes 

 of protecting against caterpi^ilars, against green-fly ; 

 what plants benefited by salt water. (Ix) JVIethod of 

 watering gardens. (Ixi f.) Juices and flavours of 

 garden plants ; pepperwort, rosemary, mint. Total 

 1144 facts, investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Maccius Plautus, Marcus Varro, 

 Decimus Silanus, Cato the Ceusor, Hyginus, Virgil, 

 Mucianus, Celsus, Colimiella, Calpurnius Bassus, 



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