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BOOK I.
BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS.
BOOK III. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
BOOK IV. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS,
HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR
FORMERLY EXISTED.
BOOK V.
AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
BOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS,
HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES
WHO NOW EXIST, OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
BOOK VII.
MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS.
BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.
BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.
BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.
BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.
BOOK XII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TREES
BOOK XIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EXOTIC TREES, AND AN
ACCOUNT OF UNGUENTS.
BOOK XIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT TREES.
BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.
BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.
BOOK XVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.
BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.
BOOK XIX.
THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN
ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.
BOOK XX.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS.
BOOK XXI.
AN ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS. AND THOSE USED FOR
CHAPLETS MORE PARTICULARLY.
BOOK XXII.
THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.
BOOK XXIII.
THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.
BOOK XXIV.
THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES.
BOOK XXV.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WILD PLANT
BOOK XXVI.
A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM
PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PARTICULAR
DISEASES.
BOOK XXVII.
A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM.
BOOK XXVIII.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
BOOK XXIX.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
BOOK XXX.
REMEDIES DERIEVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
BOOK XXXI.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTION
BOOK XXXII.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS.
BOOK XXXIII.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.
BOOK XXXIV.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.
BOOK XXXV.
AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.
BOOK XXXVI.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STONES.
BOOK XXXVII.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PRECIOUS STONES.
chapter:
CHAP. 1.—THE HONOURABLE PLACE OCCUPIED BY TREES IN
THE SYSTEM OF NATURE.
CHAP. 2. (1.)—THE EARLY HISTORY OF TREES.
CHAP. 3.—EXOTIC TREES. WHEN THE PLANE-TREE FIRST
APPEARED IN ITALY, AND WHENCE IT CAME.
CHAP. 4.—THE NATURE OF THE PLANE-TREE.
CHAP. 5.—REMARKABLE FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE
PLANE-TREE.
CHAP. 6. (2.)—THE CHAMÆPLATANUS. WHO WAS THE FIRST
TO CLIP GREEN SHRUBS.
CHAP. 7. (3.)—HOW THE CITRON IS PLANTED.
CHAP. 8. (4.)—THE TREES OF INDIA.
CHAP. 9.—WHEN EBONY WAS FIRST SEEN AT ROME. THE VARIOUS
KINDS OF EBONY.
CHAP. 10. (5.)—THE INDIAN THORN.
CHAP. 11.—THE INDIAN FIG.
CHAP. 12. (6.)—THE PALA: THE FRUIT CALLED ARIENA.
CHAP. 13.—INDIAN TREES, THE NAMES OF WHICH ARE UNKNOWN.
INDIAN TREES WHICH BEAR FLAX.
CHAP. 14. (7.)—THE PEPPER-TREE.—THE VARIOUS KINDS OF
PEPPER—BREGMA—ZINGIBERI, OR ZIMPIBERI.
CHAP. 15.—CARYOPHYLLON, LYCION, AND THE CHIRONIAN
PYXACANTHUS.
CHAP. 16. (8.)—MACIR.
CHAP. 17.—SUGAR.
CHAP. 18.—TREES OF ABIANA, GEDROSIA, AND HYRCANIA.
CHAP. 19. (9.)—TREES OF BACTRIANA, BDELLIUM, OR BROCHON,
OTHERWISE MALACHA, OR MALDACON, SCORDASTUM. ADULTERATIONS USED IN ALL SPICES AND AROMATICS; THE VARIOUS
TESTS OF THEM AND THEIR RESPECTIVE VALUES.
CHAP. 20.—TREES OF PERSIS.
CHAP. 21. (10.)—TREES OF THE ISLANDS OF THE PERSIAN SEA.
THE COTTON TREE.
CHAP. 22.—THE TREE CALLED CYNA. TREES FROM WHICH
FABRICS FOR CLOTHING ARE MADE IN THE EAST.
CHAP. 23.—A COUNTRY WHERE THE TREES NEVER LOSE THEIR
LEAVES.
CHAP. 24.—THE VARIOUS USEFUL PRODUCTS OF TREES.
CHAP. 25. (12.)—COSTUS.
CHAP. 26.—NARD. THE TWELVE VARIETIES OF THE PLANT.
CHAP. 27. (13.)—ASARUM, OR FOAL-FOOT.
CHAP. 28.—AMOMUM.—AMOMIS.
CHAP. 29.—CARDAMOMUM.
CHAP. 30.—THE COUNTRY OF FRANKINCENSE.
CHAP. 31.—THE TREES THAT BEAR FRANKINCENSE.
CHAP. 32.—VARIOUS KINDS OF FRANKINCENSE.
CHAP. 33. (15.)—MYRRH.
CHAP. 34.—THE TREES WHICH PRODUCE MYRRH.
CHAP. 35.—THE NATURE AND VARIOUS KINDS OF MYRRH.
CHAP. 36. (17.)—MASTICH.
CHAP. 37.—LADANUM AND STOBOLON.
CHAP. 38.—ENHÆMON.
CHAP. 39.—THE TREE CALLED BRATUS.
CHAP. 40.—THE TREE CALLED STOBRUM.
CHAP. 41. (18.)—WHY ARABIA WAS CALLED "HAPPY."
CHAP. 42. (19.)—CINNAMOMUM.
XYLOCINNAMUM.
CHAP. 43.—CASSIA.
CHAP. 44.—CANCAMUM AND TARUM.
CHAP. 45. (21.)—SERICHATUM AND GABALIUM.
CHAP. 46.—MYROBALANUM.
CHAP. 47. (22.)—PHŒNICOBALANUS.
CHAP. 48.—THE SWEET-SCENTED CALAMUS;
THE SWEET-SCENTED
RUSH.
CHAP. 49.—HAIMONIACUM.
CHAP. 50.—SPHAGNOS.
CHAP. 51.—CYPROS.
CHAP. 52.—ASPALATHOS, OR ERYSISCEPTRUM.
CHAP. 53.—MARON.
CHAP. 54. (25.)—BALSAMUM; OPOBALSAMUM; AND XYLOBAL-
SAMUM.
CHAP. 55.—STORAX.
CHAP. 56.—GALBANUM.
CHAP. 57. (26.)—PANAX.
CHAP. 58.—SPONDYLIUM.
CHAP. 59.—MALOBATHRUM.
CHAP. 60. (27.)—OMPHACIUM.
CHAP. 61. (28.)—BRYON, ŒNANTHE, AND MASSARIS.
CHAP. 62.—ELATE OR SPATHE.
CHAP. 63.—CINNAMON OR COMACUM.
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Table of Contents:
BOOK VII.
MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS.
BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.
BOOK XXII.
THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.
BOOK XXXII.
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS.
1 Fée remarks, that this must not be confounded with the Calamus aromaticus of the moderns, of which Pliny speaks in B. xxv. c. 100, with sufficient accuracy to enable us to identify it with the Acorus calamus of Linnæus. It is not ascertained by naturalists what plant is meant by Pliny in the present instance, though Fée is of opinion that a gramineous plant of the genus Andropogon is meant. M. Guibourt has suggested that the Indian Gentiana chirayta is the plant. From what Pliny says in B. xiii. c. 21, it appears that this calamus grew in Syria, which is also the native country of the Andropogon schœnauthus.
The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.
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