[1961] De Re Rust. c. 8. Some think that this was the bitter almond; and the word “acriore,” used by Pliny, would almost seem to imply that such is the case.
[1962] Apparently the “smooth” or “bald” nut. May not a variety something like the hickory nut of America be meant?
[1963] Festus says that a kind of nut was so called, because the Prænestines, when besieged by Hannibal at Casilinum, subsisted upon them. See Livy, B. xxiii. Fée considers it only another name for the common hazel nut.
[1964] De Re Rust. c. 145.
[1965] The soft-shelled almond, or princess almond of the French; the Amygdalus communis fragilis of naturalists.
[1966] This last variety does not seem to have been identified: the hard-shell almonds do not appear to be larger than the others.
[1967] Or “soft” almond, a variety only of the Amygdalus fragilis.
[1968] There is little doubt that Fée is right in his assertion, that this great personage imposed on our author; as no trees of this family are known to bear two crops.