[2614] The tibia, or pipe, was played lengthwise, like the flageolet or clarionet.
[2615] A variety of the Arundo donax. The Orchomenian reed is of the same class. The fistula was played sideways; and seems to have been a name given both to the Syrinx or the Pandæan pipes, and the flute, properly so called.
[2616] In the last Chapter. The Arundo donax, probably, so far as European warfare was concerned.
[2617] A variety of the Arundo donax of Linnæus.
[2618] This is not the fact.
[2619] The Arundo versicolor of Miller.
[2620] Constantinus and Schneider, upon Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. iv. c. 11, suspect the correctness of this word.
[2621] See B. xx. c. 88, and B. xxxii. c. 52.
[2622] The Arundo phragmites of Linnæus. The Plotias, no doubt, was only a variety of it.
[2623] “Arundo tibialis.” The story about the time taken by it to grow, and the increase of the waters, is, of course, fabulous.