[1026] They still abound in those places. The Spanish coasts on the Mediterranean, Fée says, as well as the vicinity of Gibraltar, are covered with them.
[1027] In c. 39.
[1028] Fée thinks that this may be the Muscaria botryoïdes of Miller, Dict. No. I. See also B. xx. c. [41].
[1029] A variety, probably, of the common onion, the Allium cepa of Linnæus.
[1030] Some variety of the genus Allium, Fée thinks.
[1031] Fée queries whether this may not be some cyperaceous plant with a bulbous root.
[1032] A white bulb, if we may judge from the name. The whole of this passage is from Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. vii. c. 11.
[1033] This has not been identified. The old reading was “ægilops,” a name now given to a kind of grass.
[1034] The Iris sisyrinchium of Linnæus.
[1035] The Arum colocasia of Linnæus, held in great esteem by the ancient Egyptians as a vegetable. The root is not a bulb, but tubercular, and the leaf bears no resemblance to that of the Lapathum, dock or sorrel. It was sometimes known by the name of “lotus.”