BOOK I 



thaginian wax. (1-cviii) Self-grown vegetation, its 

 use among certain races, its kinds, remarkable cases 

 of; strawberries, wild grapes, butcher's broom (c, 

 4 drugs) ; samphire, 2 kinds (ci, 11 drugs), meadow 

 parsnjp, willow-hop, cuJcas (cii, 2 drugs) Cretan 

 pitch plant, anthalinm or auticellium or anthjd- 

 liuni (ciii, 6 drugs); oetimi; roots with no growth above 

 the surface of the earth ; chickling vetch, aracos ; 

 candryala, hypochoeris, caucaUs, anthriscum, chervil 

 (also called goat's beard), maiden-flower or white 

 blossom or marjoram or partridge-plant or wall- 

 plant (civ, 8 drugs), nightshade or sti-ychnos or hali- 

 cacabus or cahtha or dorycnion or mad-plant or 

 surplus or sinew-plant or lack-wit or moly (cv, 8 

 drugs), wild pulse (cvi, 6 drugs), chick-pea, acynopus, 

 rock-plant ; non-flowering plants, plants perpetually 

 in flower ; safflower, 4 kinds (cvii, 3 drugs). (liv-viii) 

 Plants of the prickly kind (erynge thistle, licorice root, 

 land caltrop, rest-haiTow, pheos or stoebe, hoi'se- 

 beam, nettle, 4 kinds, dead-nettle, scorpion-grass, 

 acorna or murder-thistle, A\hitethorn, copper-wort, 

 safBower, many-thoi-n, donkcy-box, helxine, edible 

 thistle, carline thistle, tetralix heath (thorny mastix, 

 cactus, pternica, pappum, artichoke). (lix) Plants 

 classed by stalks : hartshorn, alkanet, chamomile, 

 pjiyllanthes, crepis, lotus. (Ix) Plants distinguished 

 by leaves : evergreens ; plants flowering in sections ; 

 heliotrope, maideuhair ; plants whose use for drugs 

 will be stated in the next Book. (Ixi-v) Ear-bearing 

 classes : stanyops, fox-tail, stelephuros, or quail- 

 pLant or plantain, thryallis, partridge-wort, bird's 

 niilk ; plants of twelve-month growth, plants 

 flowering from top, ditto from bottom ; internal- 

 sprouting burdock, Opus-plant making root £rom 



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