4. The anguine or erratic cucumber: five remedies 209

5. The cultivated cucumber: nine remedies 210

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7. The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus: one remedy 212

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11. Turnips; those known as bunion and bunias: five remedies _ib._

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12. The wild radish, or armoracia: one remedy 215

13. The cultivated radish: forty-three remedies _ib._

14. The parsnip: five remedies. The hibiscum, wild mallow, or plistolochia: eleven remedies 218

15. The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remedies _ib._

18. Sile, or hartwort: twelve remedies 221

22. Bulbed leek: thirty-nine remedies 225

24. The lettuce: forty-two remedies. The goat-lettuce: four remedies 228

25. Cæsapon: one remedy. Isatis: one remedy. The wild lettuce: seven remedies _ib._

28. Limonion, or neuroides: three remedies 233

30. Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration or ambula: twelve remedies 234

32. Seris, three varieties of it: seven remedies borrowed from it 235

33. The cabbage: eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Cato _ib._

34. Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 237

36. The wild cabbage: thirty-seven remedies 240

39. The squill: twenty-three remedies _ib._

42. Garden asparagus; with the next, twenty-four remedies 245

46. Olusatrum or Hipposelinon: eleven remedies. Oreoselinon: two remedies. Helioselinon: one remedy 248

47. Petroselinon: one remedy. Buselinon: one remedy _ib._

55. Wild pennyroyal: seventeen remedies 260

57. Cummin: forty-eight remedies. Wild cummin: twenty-six remedies 262

59. The capparis or caper: eighteen remedies 264

60. Ligusticum, or lovage: four remedies 265

62. Cunila gallinacea, or origanum: five remedies 266

64. Soft cunila: three remedies. Libanotis: three remedies _ib._

65. Cultivated cunila: three remedies. Mountain cunila: seven remedies 267

66. Piperitis, or siliquastrum: five remedies _ib._

67. Origanum, onitis, or prasion: six remedies 268

69. Three varieties of Heracleotic origanum: thirty remedies _ib._

71. Gith, or melanthion: twenty-three remedies _ib._

73. Where the best anise is found: various remedies derived from this plant 272

75. Sacopenium, or sagapenon: thirteen remedies _ib._

76. The white poppy: three remedies. The black poppy: eight remedies. Remarks on sleep. Opium. Remarks in disfavour of the potions known as “anodynes, febrifuges, digestives, and cœliacs.” In what way the juices of these plants are to be collected 275