[GG] Réaumur, vol. iii.
[GH] In order to prevent ambiguity, it is necessary to remark that the excrescences thus called must not be confounded with the true galls, which are occasionally found in the gall-bladder.
[GI] Réaumur, Mém. iv. 505.
[GJ] Mém. iv. 538.
[GK]
Est lucos Silari circa ilicibusque virentem
Plurimus Alburnum volitans, cui nomen asilo
Romanum est, Oestrum Graii vertere vocantes,
Asper, acerba sonans; quo tota exterrita silvis
Diffugiunt armenta; furit mugitibus æther
Concussus, sylvæque et sicci ripa Tanagri.
_Georg._ lib. iii. 146.
[GL] Linnæus, Lachesis Lapponica, July 19th.
[GM] Linnæus, Flora Lapponica, p. 378, ed. Lond. 1792.
[GN] Kirby and Spence, Introd. i. 151.
[GO] Kirby and Spence, p. 149.
[GP] These circumstances afford, we think, a complete answer to the query of Kirby and Spence—“There can be little doubt (or else what is the use of such an apparatus?) that it bores a hole in the skin.”—Introd. i. 162, 2nd edit.