BOOK I 



protomedia or casignetes or Dionysonymplias, Iielian- 

 this or heliocallis, hermesiades, aeschynomenes, 

 crocis, oenetheris, anacampseros. (ciii-cix) Eriphia, 

 wool grass 1, milk-wort 1, soldier-grass l,stratiotes 5, 

 statue*s head grass 1, river grass 1, tongue grass 1, 

 sieve grass 1. (cx-cxx) Dung-hill grass 1, dog's water 

 grass 1, rodarum 3, French everlasting 2, Venus's comb 



1, exedum, southern-wood 2, goose-grass 1, dog-bur 



2, hart-wort or syreon 3, couch-grass 17, lady's 

 finger 5, Greek hay or fenugreek, our silicia, 31. 

 Total: 1176 drugs, investigations and observations. 



Authorities used : Gaius Valgius, Pompeius Len- 

 aeus, Sextius Niger's Greek writings, Juhus Bassus's 

 ditto, Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus. Foreign 

 authorities : Theophrastus, Apollodorus, Democritus, 

 Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander's Things 

 serviceablefor life, Nicander, Homer, Hesiod, Musaeus, 

 Sophocles, Anaxilaus. Medical writers : Mnesitheus, 

 CalUmachus, Phanias the scientific writer, Timaristus, 

 Simus, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Ophion, 

 Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of 

 Citium, Apollodorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, 

 Plistonicus, Medius, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistio, 

 Asclepiades, Crateuas, Petronius Diodotus, lollas, 

 Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesides, Epi- 

 charmus, Damion, Sosimenes, Tlepolemus, Metro- 

 dorus, Solon, Lycus, Olympias of 'Thebes, PhiUnus, 

 Petrichus, Miccio, Glaucias, Xenocrates. 



Book XXV. Contents : the natures of self-grown 

 plants ; value of plants. (i-vi) Origin of their use ; 

 Latin writers on uses of plants ; when this knowledge 

 reached the Romans ; fii-st Greek writers on the 

 subject; herbal remedies, why comparutively httle 

 used ; remarkable discoveries of plants. Dog-rose, 



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