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1 In cc. 9–14 of the present Book.
2 This passage is quite unintelligible; and it is with good reason that Fée questions whether Pliny really understood the author that he copied from.
3 Fée remarks, that Pliny does not seem to know that the catkin is an assemblage of flowers, and that without it the tree would be totally barren.
4 Pliny blunders sadly here, in copying from Theophrastus, B. iii. c. 16. He mixes up a description of the box and the cratægus, or holm-oak, making the latter to be a seed of the former: and he then attributes a mistletoe to the box, which Theophrastus speaks of as growing on the cratægus.
5 See c. 93, where he enlarges on the varieties of the mistletoe.
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