BOOK I 



Mamilius Sura, Sabinus Tiro, Licinius Macer, Quintus 

 Birrius, Vibius Rufinus, Caesennius On gardening, 

 Castritius ditto, Firmus ditto, Potitus diito. Foreign 

 authorities : Herodotus, Theophrastus, Democritus, 

 Aristomachus, Menander's Things serviceable for life, 

 Anaxilaus. 



Book XX. Subject : medicines obtained from 

 garden plants : (ii) from the wood-cucumber 26, (iii) 

 wild cucumber 27 ; (iv) snake cucumber or wild 

 cucumber 5, (v) garden cucumber 9, (vi) pumpkin 11, 

 (vii) gourd or somphus 1, (viii) colocynth 10, (ix) 

 turnips 9, (x) vidld turnip 1, (xi) navews or swede of 

 two varieties 5, (xii f.) garden radish 43, horseradish 1, 

 (xiv) parsnip 5, marsh mallow or plistolochia or wild 

 mallow 11, (xv) staphyUnus or wild parsnip 22, (xvi) 

 French carrot 1, (x^^ii) skirwort 11, (xviii) hartwort 12, 

 (xix) elecampane 11, (xx) onion 27, (xxi) cut leek 

 (chives) 32, (xxii) headed leek 39, (xxiii) garUc 61, 

 (xxiv) lettuce 42, goat-lettuce 4, (xxv) caesapura 

 lettuce 1, isatis 1, wild lettuce 7, (xxvi) hawk-weed 17, 

 (xxvii) beet 24, (xxviii) wild beet or neurois 3, (xxix) 

 endive or wild succory 4, (xxx) chicory or worthy or 

 championship 12, (xxxi) scented succory 4, (xxxii) 

 endive 2 kinds, 7 medicines, (xxxiii) cabbage 87, 

 (xxxv) sprouts, (xxxvi) wild cabbage 27, (xxxvii) 

 charlock 1, (xxxviii) sea-cabbage 1. (xxxix) squill 23, 

 (xl) onions 30, (xH) bulhi?ie 1, emetic onion, (xUi f.) 

 garden asparagus 17, wild asparagus or orminus 

 or Libyan asparagus 24, (xhv) parsley 17, (xlv) 

 wild parsley or bee-plant ; (xlvi) olusatrum or horse- 

 parsley 11, mouutain parsley 2, bog parsley 1, (xlvii) 

 rock parsley 1, cow-parsley 1, (xlviii) basil 35, (xUx) 

 colewort 12, (1) cress 42, (U) rue 84, (lii) wild 

 mint 20 [ Uii) mint 41, (Uv) flea-bane 25, (Iv) wild 



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