[2594] The Hedera major sterilis of C. Bauhin.
[2595] The first variety of the common ivy, the Hedera helix of Linnæus.
[2596] A wreath of ivy was the usual prize in the poetic contests.
[2597] See B. v. c. 16, and B. vi. c. 23.
[2598] The “red berry” and the “golden fruit.”
[2599] The berries are yellow in the first variety of the common ivy, the Hedera poetica of C. Bauhin.
[2600] This is the case sometimes with the black ivy, the Hedera arborea of C. Bauhin. Only isolated cases, however, are to be met with.
[2601] There is an ivy of this kind, the Hedera humi repens of botanists; but most of the commentators are of opinion that it is the ground ivy, the Glechoma hederacea of Linnæus, that is spoken of. Sprengel takes it to be the Anthirrinum Azarina, from which opinion, however, Fée dissents.
[2602] The Smilax aspera of Linnæus; the sarsaparilla plant.
[2603] Fée is inclined to question this; but the breadth of the tablets may have been very small in this instance.