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1 Fée remarks that this Chapter includes a number of gross prejudices which it is not worth while to examine or contradict.
2 "Hordeum murinum." Anguillara, Matthioli, and Sprengel identify it with the Lolium perenne of Linnæus; but, as Fée says, it is clear that Pliny had in view the modern Hordeum murinum, mouse-barley.
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