[560] The Empress Livia.
[561] There has been considerable doubt what plant it was that produced the cassia of the ancients. Fée, after diligently enquiring into the subject, inclines to think that it was the Laurus cassia of Linnæus, the same tree that produces the cassia of the present day.
[562] There is little doubt that all this is fabulous.
[563] Or, “smelling like balsam.”
[564] “Looking like laurel.”
[565] “Equal to cinnamon.” Fée thinks that it is a variety of the Laurus cassia.
[566] He probably alludes to the Daphne Cnidium of Linnæus, which, as Fée remarks, is altogether different from the Laurus cassia, or genuine cassia.
[567] A gum resin of some unknown species, but not improbably, Fée thinks, the produce of some of the Amyrides. Sprengel thinks that it was produced from the Gardenia gummifera.
[568] Aloe-wood.
[569] According to Poinsinet, these Arabic words derive their origin from the Slavonic; the first signifying a “cordial drug,” or “alexipharmic,” and the other a drug “which divides itself into tablets.” It is impossible to divine what drugs are meant by these names.