Natural History

On ammoniac and Spanish spagno Spanish herb/plant | Ch. 24. |
On nut grass and thorny broom | Ch. 25. |
On balsam, opobalsam, xylobalsam, styrax, and galbanum | Ch. 26. |
On all-heal, parsnip, and malabathrum | Ch. 27. |
On unripe olive oil | Ch. 28. |
On iris, oenanthe, the fir tree, cinnamon, and comacum | Ch. 29. |
Total items, histories, and observations: 478.

M. Varro, Mutianus, Virgil, Fabianus, Sebosus, Pomponius Mela, Flavius Proculus, Trogus, Hyginus, Claudius Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, Sextus Niger, who wrote on medicine in Greek, Cassius Hemina, L. Piso, Tuditanus, Antias.

Theophrastus, Herodotus, Callisthenes, Isigonus, Cleitarchus, Anaximenes, Duris, Nearchus, Onesicritus, Polycritus, Olympiodorus, Diogenetus, Nigibulus, Anticlides, Chares of Cydonia, Menechmus, Dorotheus, Xenias of Colophon, Antheus, Epipodus, Chaereas, Democles, Ptolemy, Lagus, Masias the Macedonian, Zoilus. Also Democritus, Amphilochus, Aristomachus, Alexander Polyhistor, Juba, Apollodorus who wrote on odors, Heraclides the physician, Archidemus. Also Dionysius. Also Democlides. Also Euphron. Also Opsenides. Also Diagoras. Also Iollas. Also Heraclides of Tarentum, Xenocrates of Ephesus.

BOOK THIRTEEN contains matters concerning perfumes and maritime trees.
On perfumes, how they were first known to us, and their composition | Ch. 1. |
What is called royal perfume, what are powders, and how they are kept | Ch. 2. |
How much luxury is in perfumes, and when they first came into use among the Romans | Ch. 3. |
On palms, their nature, and their kinds | Ch. 4. |
On the trees of Syria | Ch. 5. |
On the terebinth tree | Ch. 6. |
On the Egyptian and Cyprian fig | Ch. 7. |
On the teraunia unknown, likely a specific shrub and the carob bean | Ch. 8. |
On the Egyptian pfico perhaps a variant of fig or specific fruit and Egyptian spia unknown, possibly a variant of spina/thorn | Ch. 9. |
On the plum and the trees around Memphis | Ch. 10. |
On the kinds of gums and papyrus | Ch. 11. |
On the kinds of paper, how paper is made, the testing of paper, its defects, and its glue | Ch. 12. |

On the books of Numa | Ch. 13. |
On the trees of Ethiopia | Ch. 14. |
On the trees of Atlantis and citrus trees, and what is praised in them, and what is blamed | Ch. 15. |
On the trogere unknown, possibly a local name for a tree tree | Ch. 16. |
On the lotus tree | Ch. 17. |
On the stalk itself and the root of the lotus | Ch. 18. |
On the Christ's thorn and the pomegranate, and on the flower of the pomegranate | Ch. 19. |
On the fruits of Asia and Greece | Ch. 20. |
On the spurge olive or camelae type of thorny plant and tragacantha goat's thorn, and on the trago goat-shrub or scorpione scorpion-plant, and tamarisk, bria unknown, likely a shrub, and gallnut | Ch. 21. |
On the spindle tree, andrachna purslane/arbutus, congrygia unknown, likely a shrub, and thapsia a medicinal plant | Ch. 22. |
On capers or dog-rose or epheostaphyle bramble-grape, and on faripha unknown plant | Ch. 23. |
On the royal Babylonian thorn and on the cytisus | Ch. 24. |
On the fruits and trees of our sea, and the Red Sea, and the Indian Sea | Ch. 25. |
Total items, histories, and observations: 468.

M. Varro, Mutianus, Virgil, Fabianus, Sebosus, Pomponius, Mela, Fabius, Hyginus, Trogus, Proculus, Claudius Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, Sextus Niger who wrote on medicine in Greek, Cassius Hemina, L. Piso, Tuditanus, Antias.

Theophrastus, Herodotus, Callisthenes, Isidorus, Cleitarchus, Anaximenes, Duris, Nearchus, Onesicritus, Olympiodorus, Diogenetus, Cleobulus, Anticlides, Crates of Mytilene, Menetimodorus of Thebes, Dorotheus of Athens, Lycus, Antheus, Epippus, Dion, Adimanthus, Ptolemy, Lagus, Masias the Macedonian, Zoilus. Also Democritus, Amphilochus, Alexander Polyhistor, Aristomachus, King Juba, Apollodorus who wrote on odors, Heraclides the physician, Boenus the physician, Archidemus. Also Dionysius. Also Democlides. Also Euphron. Also Mnesides. Also Diagoras. Also Iollas. Also Heraclides of Tarentum, Xenocrates of Ephesus.

BOOK FOURTEEN contains matters concerning vines and vineyards.
On fruit-bearing trees | Ch. 1. |
On the nature of vines and in what ways they bear fruit | Ch. 2. |
On the kinds of birds Likely an error in original for "vines" | Ch. 3. |
Also on the kinds of vines | Ch. 4. |