The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
50. Plants which grow spontaneously: the use made of them by
various nations, their nature, and remarkable facts
connected with them. The strawberry, the tamnus, and
the butcher’s broom. The batis, two varieties of it.
The meadow parsnip. The hop 347
51. The colocasia _ib._
52. The cichorium. The anthalium or anticellium, or anthyllum.
The œtum. The arachidna. The aracos. The candryala. The
hypochœris. The caucalis. The anthriscum. The scandix.
The tragopogon. The parthenium or leucanthes, amaracus,
perdicium, or muralis. The trychnum or strychnum,
halicacabum, callias, dorycnion, manicon, peritton,
neuras, morio, or moly. The corchorus. The aphace. The
acynopos. The epipetron. Plants which never flower.
Plants which are always in flower 348
53. Four varieties of the cnecos 350
54. Plants of a prickly nature: the erynge, the glycyrrhiza,
the tribulus, the anonis, the pheos or stœbe, and the
hippophaes _ib._
55. Four varieties of the nettle. The lamium and the scorpio 351
56. The carduus, the acorna, the phonos, the leucanthos, the
chalceos, the cnecos, the polyacanthos, the onopyxos,
the helxine, the scolymos, the chamæleon, the tetralix,
and acanthice mastiche 353
57. The cactos: the pternix, pappos, and ascalias 354
58. The tribulus: the anonis 355
59. Plants classified according to their stems: the coronopus,
the anchusa, the anthemis, the phyllanthes, the crepis,
and the lotus _ib._
60. Plants classified according to their leaves. Plants which
never lose their leaves: plants which blossom a little
at a time: the heliotropium and the adiantum, the
remedies derived from which will be mentioned in the
following Book 356
61. The various kinds of eared plants: the stanyops; the
alopecuros; the stelephurus, ortyx, or plantago; the
thryallis 357
62. The perdicium. The ornithogale _ib._
63. Plants which only make their appearance at the end of a
year. Plants which begin to blossom at the top. Plants
which begin to blossom at the lower part 358
64. The lappa, a plant which produces within itself. The
opuntia, which throws out a root from the leaf _ib._
65. The iasione. The chondrylla. The picris, which remains in
flower the whole year through _ib._
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