This volume presents the papers of the Seventh Three-day Working Meeting on pharmaceutical and aromatic plants, organised under the aegis of the Cypriot Minister of Education and Culture, by the Biological Society of Cyprus and the ETBA Cultural Foundation, in Paralimni, Cyprus, in March 1997. Eighty-five specialists, archaeologists, ethnologists, historians, linguists, agronomists, botanists, chemists, biologists, architects, economists etc. participated in this attempt.