[2048] From Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. vi. c. 2, and De Causis, B. i. c. 5. Fée suggests, that the seed, lying at the bottom of the calyx, may have escaped notice, and that in reality, when the ancients imagined they were sowing the blossoms, they were putting the seed in the earth. That, in fact, seems to agree with the view which Pliny takes of the matter.
[2049] Which lies in the interior of the Peloponnesus.
[2050] See B. xv. c. 1.
[2051] “Lapidei Campi.” See B. iii. c. 5.
[2052] Similar to our practice of depasturing sheep on Dartmoor and other favourite moors and downs.
[2053] Fée takes this to be the Inula viscosa of Desfontaines, and identifies the other kind with the Inula pulicaria of Linnæus. See B. xx. cc. [63], [64].
[2054] B. xx. c. 64.
[2055] Supposed to be the same as the Agrostemma coronaria of Linnæus.
[2056] Sprengel identifies it with the Pancratium maritimum of Linnæus. As described by Dioscorides, however, Fée takes it to be the Lilium Martagon, or Turk’s-cap lily. See c. [90] of this Book.
[2057] This is different from the Helenium of the Greeks, the Inula Helenium of Linnæus, mentioned in B. xv. c. 7. Sprengel identifies it with the Teucrium Creticum of Linnæus, the Cretan germander.