Transcriber’s Notes:— Italic text is denoted _thus_. The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected. Further notes can be found at the end of the book. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE LATE JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S., AND H.T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. VOL. V. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLVI. J. BILLING, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER (FROM WOKING), GUILDFORD, SURREY. CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. BOOK XXIV. THE REMEDIES DERIVED PROM THE FOREST TREES. CHAP. Page 1. The antipathies and sympathies which exist among trees and plants 1 2. The lotus of Italy: six remedies 3 3. Acorns: thirteen remedies 4 4. The kermes-berry of the holm-oak: three remedies _ib._ 5. Gall-nuts: twenty-three remedies 5 6. Mistletoe: eleven remedies _ib._ 7. The excrescences which grow on the robur: one remedy. The cerrus: eight remedies 6 8. The cork-tree: two remedies 7 9. The beech: four remedies _ib._ 10. The cypress: twenty-three remedies _ib._ 11. The cedar: thirteen remedies 8 12. Cedrides: ten remedies 9 13. Galbanum: twenty-three remedies 10 14. Hammoniacum: twenty-four remedies 11 15. Storax: ten remedies _ib._ 16. Spondylium: seventeen remedies 12 17. Sphagnos, sphacos, or bryon: five remedies _ib._ 18. The terebinth: six remedies _ib._ 19. The pitch-tree and the larch: eight remedies 13 20. The chamæpitys: ten remedies _ib._ 21. The pityusa: six remedies 14 22. Resins: twenty-two remedies 15 23. Pitch: twenty-three remedies 17 24. Pisselæon and palimpissa: sixteen remedies 18 25. Pissasphaltos: two remedies _ib._ 26. Zopissa: one remedy 19 27. The torch-tree: one remedy _ib._ 28. The lentisk: twenty-two remedies _ib._ 29. The plane-tree: twenty-five remedies 20 30. The ash: five remedies 21