Till CONTENTS. 
Chap. Fa^e 
3. Diapasma, magma ; the mode of testing unguents 166 
4. The excesses to which luxury has run in unguents 167 
5. When unguents were first used by the Romans 168 
6. The palm-tree 169 
7. The nature of the palm-tree 170 
8. How the palm-tree is planted 172 
9. The difi'erent varieties of palm-trees, and their characteristics . . 173 
10. The trees of Syria : the pistacia, the cottana, the damascena, and 
the myxa 178 
11. The cedar. Trees which have on them the fruit of three years at 
once • ib, 
12. The terebinth 179 
13. The sumach- tree ilf. 
14. The trees of Egypt. The fig-tree of Alexandria 180 
15. The fig-tree of Cyprus 181 
16. The carob-tree ib. 
17. The Persian tree. In what trees the fruits germinate the one 
below the other 182 
18. The cucus ^ 183 
19. The Egyptian thorn ib. 
20. Nine kinds of gum. The sarcocoUa 184 
21. The papyrus : the use of paper : when it was first invented . . 185 
22. The mode of making paper 186 
23. The nine different kinds of paper 187 
24. The mode of testing the goodness of paper 189 
25. The peculiar defects in paper 190 
26. The paste used in the preparation of paper 191 
27. The books of JSTuma ib. 
28. The trees of ^Ethiopia . . 193 
29. The trees of Mount Atlas. The citrus, and the tables made of 
the wood thereof 194 
30. The points that are desirable or otherwise in these tables . . . . 195 
31. The citron-tree , 198 
32. The lotus ib, 
33. The trees of Cyrenaica. The paliurus 200 
34. Nine varieties of the Punic apple. Balaustium ib. 
35. The trees of Asia and Greece ; the epipactis, the erica, the 
Cnidian grain or thymelsea, pyrosachne, cnestron, or cneoron. . 201 
36. The tragion : tragacanthe . . ib. 
37. The tragos or scorpio ; the myrica or brya ; the ostrys . . . . 202 
38. The euonymos 203 
39. The tree called eon ib. 
40. The andrachle 204 
41. Thecoccygia; the apharce .. .. ib. 
42. The ferula ib, 
43. The thapsia 205 
44. The capparis or cynosbaton, otherwise ophiostaphyle • • . . . . 206 
45. The saripha 207 
46. The royal thorn , id, 
47. The cytisus 208 
