[1480] Fée is inclined to account for the numerous antidotes and remedies mentioned for the stings of serpents, by supposing that the stings themselves of many of them were not really venomous, but only supposed to be so.
[1481] “Repuntinas caligines.”
[1482] “Sprout,” or “Brussels sprout.” See B. xix. c. [41].
[1483] He is probably speaking of cabbage-water in general.
[1485] This bitter or pungent cabbage, Fée suggests, did not, probably, belong to the genus Brassica.
[1486] De Re Rust. c. 157.
[1487] Fée is of opinion that Pliny has here confused the description of two different plants; and that, intending to describe the Brassica arvensis of modern botany, he has superadded a description of the “Crambe agria,” mentioned by Dioscorides, which appears to be identical with the Crambe maritima, or Brassica marina, the “sea-cabbage” of the ancients (see c. [38].), the Convolvulus soldanella of modern botany.
[1488] Or “rock-cabbage,” a name given more properly to the Convolvulus soldanella.