BOOK I 



ophrys. Total, 1019 drngs, investigations and 

 observations. 



Authorities : Marcus Varro, Gaius Valgius, Pom- 

 peius Lenaeus, Sextius Niger's Greek wi-itings, Julius 

 Bassus's ditto, Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus. 

 Foreign Authorities : Theophrastus, Apollodorus, 

 Democritus, Juba, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Me- 

 nander's Things serviceable Jor life, Nicander, Homer, 

 Hesiod, Musaeus, Sophocles, Xanthus, Anaxilaus. 

 Medioal writers : Mnesitheus, CalUmachus, Phanias 

 the natural philosopher, Timaristus, Simus, Hippo- 

 crates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Ophion, HeracUdes, 

 Hicesius, Dionysius, ApoUodorus of Citium, ApoHo- 

 dorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, PUstonicus, Medius, 

 Dieuches, Cleophantus, PhiUstion, Asclepiades, 

 Crateuas, Petronius Diodotus, loUas, Erasistratus, 

 Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesides, Epicharmus, Damion, 

 Sosimenes, Tlepolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, 

 Olympias of Thebes, PhiUnus, Petrichus, Miccio, 

 Glaucias, Xenncrates. 



Book XXVII. Contents : the remaining kinds of 

 plants, drugs derived from them. (ii-x) Monk's- 

 hood or lady-kiUer or cammoron or choke-leopard or 

 scorpion, 4 drugs ; Aethiopic sage 4 ; never-grow- 

 old 4 ; aloe 29 ; alcea-maUow 1 ; herb terrible 1 ; 

 chickweed for the same uses as helxine 5 ; androsaces 

 6 ; man's-blood or St. John's-wort 6. (xi-xx) 

 Ambrosia or mug-wort or Artemisia 3, rest-harrow or 

 ononis 5, bean-trefoil or pain-kiUer 3, no-name 2, 

 cleavers or grape-fruit or goose-grass 4, bear-weed or 

 bear-ward 5, miltwort or spleenwort 2, SAvaUowwort 2, 

 aster or star-wort 3, St. John's wort and ascyroides 3. 

 (xxi-xxx) Chick-pea 3, alcibium 1, alectoros lophos, 

 our cock's-comb 2, comfrey, our rock wallwort 14, 



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