[1782] The Prunus Damascena of the naturalists; our common damson, with its numerous varieties.
[1783] Probably the Cordia myxa of Linnæus; the Sebestier of the French. It has a viscous pulp, and is much used as a pectoral. It grows only in Syria and Egypt; and hence Fée is inclined to reject what Pliny says as to its naturalization at Rome, and the account he gives as to its being engrafted on the sorb.
[1784] I. e. Asia Minor.
[1785] Hospitium.
[1786] See B. xiii. c. [17]. The Balanites Ægyptiaca of Delille.
[1787] It was this probably, and not the peach-tree, that would not bear fruit in the isle of Rhodes.
[1788] Perseus.
[1789] Fée remarks that the wild plum, the Prunus silvestris or insititia of Linnæus, was to be found in Italy before the days of Cato.