[2287] This is still the case in some of the poorer provinces of Spain.
[2288] As Fée remarks, Mars is no longer the Divinity in honour of whom characters are traced on the bark of trees.
[2289] On the contrary. Fée says, the resinous woods are the most proof of all against the action of the air.
[2290] Festus says that the Fagutal, a shrine of Jupiter, was so called from a beech tree (fagus) that stood there, and was sacred to that god.
[2291] Or osier.
[2292] Or “plantation of the æsculus.”
[2293] A.U.C. 367.
[2294] Fée regards this as an extremely doubtful assertion.
[2295] The Pinus pinea of Linnæus, the cultivated pine.
[2296] The Pinus silvestris of Linnæus, the wild pine; the Pinus maritima of Lamarck is a variety of it.