[1305] Fée says that this is not the fact, as it speedily deteriorates by keeping.
[1306] From Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. ix. c. 10.
[1307] Fée acknowledges the truth of this observation, that of a green colour containing feculent matter, and showing that the juice is not pure.
[1308] In reality there is no such resemblance whatever. See B. xxii. c. [29].
[1309] Fée says that this is an exaggerated account of the properties of the wild cucumber, as it would require a very considerable dose to cause death.
[1310] The Morbus pedicularis, or “lousy disease.”
[1311] This has been identified by some writers, Fée says, with the Cucumis flexuosus of Linnæus; but, as he observes, that plant comes originally from India, and it is more than probable that it was not known by the ancients; in addition to which, it is possessed of no medicinal properties whatever. He looks upon it as an indigenous plant not identified.
[1312] So Dioscorides, B. iv. c. 154.
[1313] “Morbus regius;” literally, the “royal disease.”
[1314] “Lentigo.”