[2484] See B. xxiv. c. 8.
[2485] This, of course, is not the fact. As to the succeeding statements, they are borrowed mostly from Theophrastus, and are in general correct.
[2486] The rising of the sap.
[2487] The Pleiades. See B. xviii. cc. 59, 60.
[2488] It was supposed in astrology that the stars exercised an effect equally upon animal and vegetable life.
[2489] 25th of July.
[2490] See B. xviii. c. 68.
[2491] The Cornus mas of botanists; probably the Frutex sanguineus mentioned in c. [30]. See also B. xv. c. [31].
[2492] Probably the Lonicera Alpigena of Linnæus; the fruit of which resembles a cherry, but is of a sour flavour, and produces vomiting.
[2493] The wood is so durable, that a tree of this kind in the forest of Montmorency is said to be a thousand years old.