BOOK I 



^-vi) That nations use herbs because of their beauty ; 

 herbs used to dye clothes ; dye made of vegetable 

 oil ditto ; tufts of sacred grass, sacred branches and 

 the ritual of demanding redress ; wreath of grass, 

 its rarity, its only recipients, the only centurion 

 recipient. (vii) Drugs made from the remaining 

 sorts of wreaths. (viii-xlv) Erynge or eryngion or 

 hundred-heads, 30; acanos thistle, 1: sweet-root or 

 licorice, 15 ; mouth-heal, 1 : caltrop, 2 kinds, 12 

 drugs ; stoebe or pheos ; horse-beam, 2 kinds, 2 drugs ; 

 nettle, 61 ; dead-nettle 7 ; scorpion-plant, 2 kinds, 

 1 drug; pellitory or phyllos or sciatica-plant or 

 polygonaton, 4; helxine, 12; pelhtory or maiden- 

 herb or iron-wort (the same as pitcher-pohsh or 

 astericum) 11 ; chamaeleon-plant or carline thistle 

 or ulophytum or cynozolon, 2 kinds, 12 drugs (gum 

 mastic) ; hartshorn, alkanet, 14 ; bastard-bugloss or 

 ecliis or doris, 3 ; donkey-lip or archebius or donkey- 

 hoof or rhexia or enchrysa, 30 ; the plant whose 

 roots make dye ; chamomile or white anthemis or 

 earth-apple or fennel-flower, 3 kinds, 11 drugs ; lotus 

 grass, 4 ; lotometra, 2 ; heliotrope or turasole or 

 wartwort, 12 ; heliotrope or three-berry or scorpion'3 

 tail, 14 ; adiantum or maiden-hair or trichomanes or 

 many-hair or saxifrage, 2 kinds, 28 drugs, rootless 

 stem ; bitter lettuce 1, corydalis 1 ; asphodel 

 51 ; orach 14 ; bear's breech or lad's love or black- 

 leaf 5 ; hare's ear 5, cow-nettle 1 ; wild parsnip 9 ; 

 chervil 9 ; southern clievril 2 ; bind-weed 4 ; 

 caucalis 12; bur-parsley 11; sillybus thistle ; car- 

 doon or meadow thistle 5 ; sow-thistle, 2 kinds, 15 

 drugs ; chondrilla 3. (xlvi) Mushrooms : pecul- 

 iarity in their mode of xepoductioa. (xlvii-ix) 

 Toadstools : signs of poisonous kinds ; 9 di'ug3 



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