[221] Red sulphuret of arsenic.
[222] Probably assafœtida.
[223] To fight with each other.—See Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, s. v. ἀλληλομάχος.
[224] A bracket, or two year old stag.
[225] Perhaps Aconite.
[226] Spax lacerticida.—Schneider.
[227] Probably a Zoophyte, Alcyonia.
[228] This should probably be read "the bees only cease from their work for forty days during the winter solstice."
[229] A corrupt passage.
[230] To the end of this Essay are appended fragments of Archestratus, on the fishes of Sicily, amounting to 270 lines of heroic verse, together with notes, by the author of the Essay.