[377] How was this ascertained? Fée seems to think that it is the Festuca fluitans of Linnæus that is alluded to, it being eagerly sought by cattle.
[378] In B. xvii. c. 3.
[379] Tenerum.
[380] Adoreum.
[381] “Tertio” may possibly mean the “third time,” i. e. for every third crop.
[382] In B. xvii. c. 6.
[383] “Ares” seems to be a preferable reading to “arescat,” “before it dries.”
[384] Schneider, upon Columella, B. ii. c. 15, would reject these words, and they certainly appear out of place.
[385] Poinsinet would supply here “tricenis diebus,” “in thirty days,” from Columella, B. ii. c. 15.
[386] “Sterile.” This is not necessarily the case, as we know with reference to what is called mummy wheat, the seed of which has been recovered at different times from the Egyptian tombs.