[1881] Fée treats this as an exaggeration.
[1882] From “mamilla,” a teat.
[1883] In Egypt. The Figue servantine, or cordeliere.
[1884] “Delicata.” The “bon-bouche.”
[1885] Fée suggests that this may have been the small early fig.
[1886] From Livia, the wife of Augustus.
[1887] From Pompeius Magnus.
[1888] Apparently meaning the “marsh” fig.
[1889] The Laconian reed, Theophrastus says, B. iv. c. 12.
[1890] The “white-wax” fig.