BOOK I 



were in vogue in Trojan times ; nature of scents ; 

 the iris (41 drugs) ; wild nard (3 drugs) ; the hulwort 

 or teuthrium (19 drugs) ; flowers with different 

 colours in the morning, at midday, and at sun- 

 set ; floral patterns in dress ; amaranth ; the 

 corn-flower (2 drugs) ; the all-gold (3 drugs) ; the 

 petilium or ox-eye daisy ; the goldy-locks or gilt 

 lady (6 drugs) ; which plants' flowers provide wreaths, 

 which plants' leaves ; white byrony, privefc, wild 

 marjoram, mezereum or casia, 2 kinds, bee-leaf or 

 balm (21 drugs), melilot, garland of Campania or 

 honey-lotus (12 drugs) ; trefoil, 3 kinds (4 drugs) ; 

 mouse bane ; thyme, 3 kinds (28 drugs) ; plants 

 springing from flower, not seed ; elecampane ; flower 

 of Jupiter ; martagon-lily (4 drugs) ; calamint (5 

 drugs) ; phlox ; plant with scented stalk and leaves ; 

 southern-wood (22 drugs) ; flower of Adonis, 2 kinds ; 

 self-fertiUzers ; leucanthemum (1 drug) ; marjoram, 

 2 kinds (60 drugs) ; wake-by-night or chenamyche 

 or see-by-night. (xxxviii f.) Time-series of birth of 

 flowers ; garland anemone or phrenion (xciv-ix 10 

 drugs) ; wine-flower grass (6 drugs) ; cultivated 

 fennel (11 drugs), marigold (11 drugs), gladiohxs, 

 hyacinth (8 drugs), lychnis (7 drugs), narcissus, 

 pothos, 2 kinds, crocus, 2 kinds, periwinkle or 

 dwarf laurel (xl, 4 drugs) ; evergreen grass. (xli-ix) 

 Length of Ufe of various flowers ; what kinds among 

 flowers should be cultivated to attract bees ; wax- 

 flower ; diet of bees ; their diseases and remedies ; 

 poisonous honey and its remedies ; honey that 

 causes madness ; honey that flies will not touch ; 

 apiaries, hives and care of hives ; do bees feel hunger ? 

 manufacture of wax ; the best kinds of wax ; Car- 



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