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1 The pomegranate, the Punica granatum of botanists.
2 Or "grained apple."
3 From the Greek ἀπύρηνον, "without kernel." This Fée would not translate literally, but as meaning that by cultivation the grains had been reduced to a very diminutive size. See B. xxiii. c. 67.
4 This variety appears to be extinct. Fée doubts if it ever existed.
5 See B. xxiii. c. 57
6 See B xxiii. c. 57.
7 See B. xxiii. c. 60.
8 "Puniceus," namely, a kind of purple.
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