[33] Cuvier says that this coincidence with the number of the legs is quite accidental, as it is with the mouth that the animal constructs the cell.
[34] The basis of it is really derived from the calix or corolla of flowers.
[35] See B. iv. c. 24.
[36] In the last Chapter.
[37] Or “Flower-honey.”
[38] Season-honey.
[39] “Vinegar” is the ordinary meaning.
[40] Sillig remarks that the whole of this passage is corrupt.
[41] Hence, perhaps, its name of “acetum.”
[42] The people of Italy.