[2011] Fée queries whether it may not have received its name of “Pliniana” in compliment to our author, or one of his family.
[2012] Hardouin thinks that this Portuguese cherry is the griotte, or mazzard.
[2013] No such cherry is known at the present day.
[2014] Such a graft is impossible; the laurel-cherry must have had some other origin.
[2015] Fée suggests that this may be the early dwarf cherry.
[2016] Or “ground-cherry;” a dwarf variety, if, indeed, it was a cherry-tree at all, of which Fée expresses some doubt.
[2017] This explains, Fée says, why it will not grow in Egypt.
[2018] The Cornus mas of Linnæus. The fruit of the cornel has a tart flavour, but is not eaten in modern Europe, except by school-boys.
[2019] That produces mastich. See B. xii. c. [36].
[2020] He alludes more especially, perhaps, to the use of cicuta or hemlock by drunkards, who looked upon it as an antidote to the effects of wine. See B. xiv. c. [7].