[998] Sprengel and Fée take this to be the Cyperus fastigiatus of Linnæus, which Forskhal found in the river Nile.
[999] Spina regia. Some writers have considered this to be the same with the Centaurea solstitialis of Linnæus. Sprengel takes it to be the Cassyta filiformis of Linnæus, a parasitical plant of India. We must conclude, however, with Fée, that both the thorn and the parasite have not hitherto been identified.
[1000] The Makron Teichos. See B. iv. c. 11.
[1001] From the various statements of ancient authors, Fée has come to the conclusion that this name was given to two totally different productions. The cytisus which the poets speak of as grateful to bees and goats, and sheep, he takes to be the Medicago arborea of Linnæus, known to us as Medic trefoil, or lucerne; while the other, a tree with a black wood, he considers identical with the Cytisus laburnum of Linnæus, the laburnum, or false ebony tree.
[1002] A kind of vetch or tare. See B. xviii.
[1003] “Frutex.” When speaking of it as a shrub, he seems to be confounding the tree with the plant.
[1004] Evidently in allusion to the tree.
[1005] He alludes to various kinds of fucus or sea-weed, which grows to a much larger size in the Eastern seas.
[1006] The Mediterranean.
[1007] Whence the word “fucus” of the naturalists.