[1225] In B. xiii. c. 42.
[1226] These absurd notions are borrowed from Theophrastus, De Causis, c. 8.
[1228] Or, according to some readings, “limodorum,” a parasitical plant, probably the Lathræa phelypea of Sprengel. Fée suggests that this plant may be the Polygonum convolvulus of Linnæus, or else one of the Cuscutæ, or a variety of Orobanche.
[1229] “Scabies.” A fungous excrescence, Fée thinks, now known as “puccinia,” or “uredo.”
[1230] See B. xvii. c. 47. Fée says that he has met with persons, in their sound senses, who obstinately defend the notion here mentioned by Pliny.
[1231] See Theophrastus. Hist. Plant. B. vii. c. 5. Many of these insects, however, do not breed upon the plants, but are only attracted to them.
[1232] “Book on Gardening.”
[1233] The Heliotropium Europæum of botanists. See B. xxii. c. [29].
[1234] This may possibly, Fée says, be efficacious against some insects.