92. Linseed: thirty remedies 294 93. Blite: six remedies 295 94. Meum, and meum athamanticum: seven remedies _ib._ 95. Fennel: twenty-two remedies 296 96. Hippomarathron, or myrsineum: five remedies _ib._ 97. Hemp: nine remedies 297 98. Fennel-giant: eight remedies 298 99. The thistle or scolymos: six remedies 299 100. The composition of theriaca _ib._ BOOK XXI. AN ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS, AND THOSE USED FOR CHAPLETS MORE PARTICULARLY. 1. The nature of flowers and gardens 304 2. Garlands and chaplets _ib._ 3. Who invented the art of making garlands: when they first received the name of “corollæ,” and for what reason 305 4. Who was the first to give chaplets with leaves of silver and gold. Lemnisci: who was the first to emboss them 306 5. The great honour in which chaplets were held by the ancients _ib._ 6. The severity of the ancients in reference to chaplets 307 7. A citizen decked with flowers by the Roman people 308 8. Plaited chaplets. Needle-work chaplets. Nard-leaf chaplets. Silken chaplets _ib._ 9. Authors who have written on flowers. An anecdote relative to Queen Cleopatra and chaplets 309 10. The rose: twelve varieties of it 310 11. The lily: four varieties of it 314 12. The narcissus: three varieties of it 316 13. How seed is stained to produce tinted flowers 317 14. How the several varieties of the violet are respectively produced, grown, and cultivated. The three different colours of the violet. The five varieties of the yellow violet _ib._ 15. The caltha. The scopa regia 318 16. The bacchar. The combretum. Asarum _ib._ 17. Saffron: in what places it grows best. What flowers were known at the time of the Trojan war 319 18. The nature of odours 321 19. The iris 324 20. The saliunca 325 21. The polium or teuthrion _ib._ 22. Fabrics which rival the colour of flowers 326 23. The amaranth 327 24. The cyanos: the holochrysos 328