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1 De Re Rust. c. 8,
2 The so-called wild myrtle does not in reality belong to the genus Myrtus.
3 See B. xxiii. c. 83; the Ruscus aculeatus of the family of the Asparagea.
4 The common myrtle, Myrtus communis of the naturalists.
5 Or Roman myrtle, a variety of the Myrtus communis.
6 The "six row" myrtle. Fée thinks that it belongs to the Myrtus angustifolia Bœtica of Bauhin.
7 De Re Rust. 125.
8 See B. xxiii. c. 81.
9 A new proof, as Fée remarks, that the ancients had peculiar notions of their own, as to the flavour of wine; myrtle berries, he says, would impart to wine a detestable aromatic flavour.
10 "Saccis:" the strainer being made of cloth.See B. xiv. e. 28.
11 They would be of no assistance whatever, and this statement is entirely fictitious.
12 He may possibly mean hernia.
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