BOOK I 



flea-bane 17, (Ivi) cat-niint 9, (Ivii) cumin 48, wild 

 cumin 27, (Iviii) ammi 10, (lix) caper-bush 18, (Ix) 

 lovage or all-heal 4, (Ixi) ox-cunila 5, (Ixii) cock- 

 cunila or marjoram 5, (Ixiii) cunilago 8, (Ixiv) soft 

 cunila 3, liLanotis 3, (Ixv) garden cuuila 3, mountain 

 cunila 7, (Ixvi) pepperwort or Indian pepper 5, 

 (Ixvii-ix) wild marjoram or horehound 6, goat's- 

 thyme 9, Heraclean marjoram, 3 kinds, 30 drugs; 

 (Ixx) pepperwort 3, (Ixxi) git or cultivated fennel 23, 

 (Ixxii-iv) anise or anicetum 61 ,dill 9,(lxxv) sacopenium 

 or sagapenum 13, (Ixxvi-lxxx) white poppy 3, black 

 poppy 8 (narcotic eifect, opium, prophylactics called 

 anodynes, peptic drugs, febrifuges and purges) ; 

 poppy-juice 1, wild poppy 2, wild horned poppy or 

 glaucous or shore poppy 6, Heracles poppy or foam 

 poppy 4 (medicinal poppy-juice), spurge poppy or 

 sea poppy 3, (Ixxxi) purslane, also called peplis, 25, 

 (Ixxxii-iv) coriander 21, orache 14, varieties of mallow- 

 malope 13, malache 1, althaea or plistolochia 54, 

 (Ixxxv f.) wood-sorrel or oxalis or horse-sorrel or 

 dock 1, water sorrel 2, horse-sorrel 6, bitter sorrel 4, 

 cultivated sorrel 21, cow-sorrel 1, (Ixxxvii-ix) 

 mustard 3 kinds, 44 drugs, sedge-froth 48, hore- 

 hound or prasium or flax-twist or lads-love or 

 philochares 29, (xc-xcix) wild thyme 18, wild mint 

 or Thrymbraeum 23, flax-seed 30, blite 6, bear- 

 woit or Athamas 7, femiel 22, horse-fennel or 

 bay-fennel 5, hemp 9, fennel giant 8, edible 

 thistle or cardoon 6. (c) Snake-bite antidote, re- 

 cipe for. — Total 1606 drugs, investigations and 

 observations. 



Authorities : Cato the Censor, Marcus Varro, 

 Pompeius Lenneus. Gaius Valgius, Hyginus, Sextius 

 Niger's Greek writings, JuUus Bassus diito, Celsus, 



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