[1215] Hardouin, from Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. vi. c. 7, suggests a reading, “whence the streams bring down branches of them torn off, and so plant them.”
[1216] The plants. Fée says, that we find in these localities, are nearly always ferns, or else Marchantia, or mosses of the genus Hypnum. Fée queries whether one of these may not have been the sisymbrium of Pliny. Water-cresses, again, have been suggested.
[1217] In B. viii. c. 41. The Anæthum fœniculum of Linnæus.
[1218] In B. xiii. c. 42.
[1219] The Cannabis sativa of Linnæus. See B. xx. c. [97].
[1220] Hemp-seed is never smoke-dried now.
[1221] See B. v. c. 29. The same hemp is mentioned as being used for making hunting-nets, by Gratius, in the Cynegeticon.
[1222] See B. v. c. 29.
[1223] See B. iii. c. 17, and B. xvii. c. 3.
[1224] This, as Fée says, is no doubt erroneous. It is seldom known to attain a couple of inches in circumference.