[2714] See B. xxiv. c. 49. The Viticella, belonging to the genus clematis.
[2715] This unfounded notion is borrowed from Theophrastus, B. v. c. 4.
[2716] In the modern botanical sense of the word, the male trees do not bear at all.
[2717] Asia Minor, namely. See B. xxxv. c. 21.
[2718] The junctures where the pieces of wood are united by glue. This is to be observed very easily in the greater part of the oaken statuary that is so plentiful in the churches of Belgium.
[2719] Cypress is perhaps the most lasting of all woods.
[2720] One of the earliest appellations, probably, of Jupiter among the Romans. See Ovid’s Fasti, B. iii. l. 445, et seq.
[2721] This is correct. Their resin defends them from the action of the air, from damp, and the attacks of noxious insects.