[3218] Fée says here—“Pliny terminates, by a credulity quite unworthy of him, a Chapter, full of false or exaggerated assertions, relative to the properties of the myrtle.”
[3219] Or “myrtle-wine.” See B. xiv. c. 19; also B. xv. c. 35.
[3220] “Alarum perfusiones.”
[3221] See B. xv. cc. 7, 37: the Ruscus aculeatus of Linnæus, or little holly of the French, belonging to the Asparagea, and not the myrtles.
[3222] Being of the same family, of course there is a great resemblance.
[3223] In reality they have no such lithotriptic nature, Fée says.
[3224] A kindred plant with the one already mentioned by our author: it is still used for making brooms in some parts of Europe.
[3226] See end of B. xiv.
[3227] See end of B. xii.