[1156] Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. ix. cap. 41; lib. xvi. cap. 8; lib. xxii. cap. 2; lib. xxiv. cap. 4.
[1157] Bochart. Hierozoicon, vol. ii. lib. iv. cap. 27, p. 624.
[1158] Tyson’s Anatomy of a Pigmy, 1751, 4to.—Delaval’s Experimental Inquiry into the Cause of the Changes of Colours in Opake Bodies, 1777, 4to.
[1159] The insect is not natural to the tree, but adventitious. As all rosebushes have not tree-lice, nor all houses bugs; so all ilices, or oaks, have not kermes.
[1160] Bellonii Itin. i. 17.—Tournefort, Voy. du Levant, i. p. 19.
[1161] Bellon. ii. 88.—Roger, Voyage de la Terre Sainte, i. 2.—Voyages de Monconys, i. p. 179.—Brown’s Travels in Africa, &c.
[1162] In opposition to this account some have asserted that Spanish kermes are praised in Petronius, cap. 119; but the passage varies so much, in different editions, that no certain conclusion can be drawn from it. See the excellent edition of Mich. Hadrianides. Amstelod. 1669, 8vo, p. 419. If we even read, with Hardouin and others,
Hesperium coccum laudabat miles,
the soldier might mention kermes among those productions of Spain of which he was fond, though he did not consider it as the best. Hardouin says, “Loquitur de minio Hispanico;” but that was a colour for painting.
[1163] Cap. 311, p. 210.