[2091] De Re Rust. 133.
[2092] Or “laurel of Apollo:” it was into this tree that Daphne was fabled to have been changed. See Ovid’s Met. B. i. l. 557, et seq.
[2093] Cato, De Re Rust. c. 121, tells us that this cake was made of fine wheat, must, anise, cummin, suet, cheese, and scraped laurel sprigs. Laurel leaves were placed under it when baked. This mixture was considered a light food, good for the stomach!
[2094] At the Pythian Games celebrated there.
[2095] Meaning that it curves at the edge, something like a pent-house.
[2096] Or tine tree, the Viburnum tinus of Linnæus, one of the caprifolia. It is not reckoned as one of the laurels, though it has many of the same characteristics.
[2097] Regia.
[2098] The barren laurel of the triumphs was the Laurus nobilis of Linnæus, which has only male flowers.
[2099] The Laurus vulgaris folio undulato of the Parisian Hortus, Fée says.
[2100] Not a laurel, nor yet a dicotyledon, Fée says, but one of the Asparagea, probably the Ruscus hypoglossum of Linnæus, sometimes known, however, as the Alexandrian laurel.