[948] Fée remarks that there is nothing singular about it, the sun more or less exercising a similar influence on all plants.
[949] The same as the Nymphæa Nelumbo of the Nile, according to Fée.
[950] Probably the Rhamnus paliurus of Linnæus; the Spina Christi of other botanists.
[951] The pomegranate, the Punica granatum of botanists.
[952] Or “grained apple.”
[953] From the Greek ἀπύρηνον, “without kernel.” This Fée would not translate literally, but as meaning that by cultivation the grains had been reduced to a very diminutive size. See B. xxiii. c. 57.
[954] This variety appears to be extinct. Fée doubts if it ever existed.
[955] See B. xxiii. c. 57.
[956] See B. xxiii. c. 60.
[957] “Puniceus,” namely, a kind of purple.