[2584] This story, which is borrowed from Theophrastus, is evidently fabulous.
[2585] Meaning Asia Minor.
[2586] Hist. Plant. B. iii c. 10.
[2587] See B. vi. c. 23.
[2588] Bacchus, after the alleged conquest by him of India, was said to have returned crowned with ivy, and seated in a car drawn by tigers.
[2589] It is a mistake to suppose that the ivy exhausts the juices of trees. Its tendrils fasten upon the cortical fissures; and, if the tree is but small, its development is apt to be retarded thereby. It is beneficial, rather than destructive, to walls.
[2590] This plant is really monœcious or androgynous.
[2591] The Rosa Eglanteria.
[2592] The Hedera helix of Linnæus, or, possibly, a variety of it with variegated leaves.
[2593] The Hedera arborea of C. Bauhin, the common ivy.