Theoph. Hist. Plant, iv. 11. 5, seq. Strab. ix. 2. t. i. p. 624. Casaub. On the river Melas and its plants see Plut. Sylla. § 20. Footnote 1880: Theoph. Hist. Plant. viii. 4. 5. Footnote 1881: Xenoph. Hellen. v. 4. 56. ----- The remaining exports of this state may be thus enumerated: cucumbers,[1882] radishes, leeks from Ascra, turnips from Thebes,[1883] mustard, heraclean all-heal,[1884] pennyroyal, wild marjoram, nenuphar, or madonia, found in the river Haliartos,[1885] the best black hellebore from Mount Helicon,[1886] lampwicks, mats,[1887] locusts, cheese,[1888] wine and stock-fish from Anthedon,[1889] and eels from Lake Copais.[1890] Granite, likewise, and a valuable kind of marble, now called brocatello, was obtained from the quarries near Thebes.[1891] ----- Footnote 1882: Plin. Nat. Hist. xix. 23. Quintil. ap. Geopon. xii. 19. Footnote 1883: Athen. i. 6. ii. 48. Plin. Nat. Hist. xix. 25. Footnote 1884: Πανάκες Ἡράκλειον. Dioscor. iii. 55. Footnote 1885: Dioscor. iii. 148. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 13. 1. Footnote 1886: Dioscor. iv. 151. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 10. 3. Geopon. vii. 12. 21. Lomeier, de Lustrat. cap. xxiv. p. 304. Footnote 1887: Aristoph. Acharn. 860, sqq. Footnote 1888: Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 477. Footnote 1889: Dicæarch. ap. Geogr. Minor, ii. 18. Footnote 1890: Athen. i. 49. vii. 45. Aristoph. Lysist. 30. Acharn. 961. 1000. 1002. Schol. ad Pac. 970. Footnote 1891: Theoph. de Lapid. § 6. See Sir John Hill’s Notes, p. 35. ----- The magnet[1892] also was found in this country, as well as a species of myrrh extracted from the root of a tree,[1893] and resembling in fragrance and medicinal qualities the celebrated Arabian gum. Of manufactured goods no great quantities seem to have been sent out of Bœotia,[1894] though its helmets and chariots, together with its apothecaries’ mortars[1895] and the pottery of Aulis enjoyed a great reputation.[1896] ----- Footnote 1892: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 25. Footnote 1893: Dioscor. i. 78. Footnote 1894: Poll. i. 149. Athen. i. 50. Footnote 1895: Dioscorid. v. 102. Footnote 1896: Pausan. ix. 19. 8. ----- Phocis exported a celebrated kind of cutlery,[1897] manufactured at Delphi, golden tripods,[1898] fans which found their way even to Cypros,[1899] together with excellent wheat and barley grown in the neighbourhood of Elatea,[1900] an inferior kind of deal,[1901] black[1902] and white hellebore from Anticyra,[1903] apples from the uplands around the shrine of Apollo,[1904] agrostis from Parnassos,[1905] purple fish caught at Bulis,[1906] and kermes from the plain between Ambryssos and Stiris:[1907] the colouring matter it was known proceeded from an insect which, however, was supposed to exist in the fruit of the tree.[1908] ----- Footnote 1897: Aristot. Polit. i. 1. Athen. iv. 74. Footnote 1898: Athen. v. 26. Footnote 1899: Id. vi. 70. Footnote 1900: Theoph. Hist. Plant. viii. 8. 2.