[2387] The Buxus sempervirens of Linnæus; very common in the south of France, and on the banks of the Loire.
[2388] It is doubtful if this is a box at all. The wild olive, mentioned in B. xv. c. [7], has the same name; all the varieties of the box emit a disagreeable smell.
[2389] A variety of the Buxus sempervirens, the same as the Buxus suffruticosa of Lamarck.
[2390] The Pyrenean box is mostly of the arborescent kind.
[2391] In Phrygia. See B. v. c. 29.
[2392] The arborescent variety.
[2393] This is doubted by Fée, but it is by no means impossible. In Pennsylvania the bees collect a poisonous honey from the Kalmia latifolia.
[2394] A very good charcoal might be made from it, but the wood is too valuable for such a purpose. It burns with a bright, clear flame, and throws out a considerable heat.
[2395] Although (in common, too, with other trees) it is used as a support for the vine, that does not any the more make it of the same nature as the fruit-trees.
[2396] The Ulmus effusa of Willdenow; the Ulmus montana of Smith: Flor. Brit.