[1732] Generally identified with the Salvia argentea of Linnæus, Silver sage, or else with the Salvia Æthiopis, Woolly sage. It must not be confounded with the plant of the same name mentioned in B. xxiv c. 102.
[1733] See B. xxv. c. 73.
[1734] See c. 16 of this Book.
[1735] “Not growing old.” It is identified by Fée and Desfontaines with the Achillæa ageratum of Linnæus, Sweet milfoil or Maudlin. Littré gives as its synonym, the Hypericum origanifolium.
[1736] See B. xx. c. 67.
[1737] The ancients probably included under this name several distinct species of the aloe. They were well acquainted, Fée says, with the Indian aloe, but probably not with that of Africa. As described by Pliny, he identifies it with the Aloe perfoliata of Linnæus: Desfontaines gives the Aloe umbellata.
[1738] See B. xxi. c. 68.
[1739] “Asia.”
[1740] See B. xxv. c. 102. The aloe is still grown in large wooden vessels, in this country, at least; but only as an ornament.
[1741] He alludes to the bitumen of Judæa, much used by the Egyptians for the purposes of embalmment.