[1016] The School of Salerno says that it may be preserved by being pickled in brine, or else in the juice of rue, which, as Fée remarks, would produce neither more nor less than a veritable poison. The modern Pharmacopœias give the receipt of a conserve of elecampane, which, however, is no longer used.
[1017] “Defrutum.” Must, boiled down to one half.
[1018] The daughter of Augustus Cæsar.
[1019] The same account nearly is given in Columella, De Re Rust. B. xi. c. 3.
[1020] Under this general name were included, probably, garlic, scallions, chives, and some kinds of onions; but it is quite impossible to identify the ancient “bulbus” more closely than this.
[1021] It has been suggested that this was probably the onion, the Allium cepa of Linnæus.
[1022] The Scilla maritima of Linnæus, the sea-squill.
[1023] See B. xx. c. [39]. He might have added that it renders vinegar both an emetic, and a violent purgative.
[1024] The leaves are in all cases green, and no other colour; but in one kind the squamæ, or bracted leaves, are white, and in another, red.
[1025] Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. vii. c. 11, gives it this name. As none of the sea-squills can be eaten with impunity, Fée is inclined to doubt if this really was a squill.