^{page 58 note 1} I also suggested that Theocritus ‘could be shown to be a true child of the age in which he lived as having a genuine scientific interest in botany’. This subject has been ably treated by Miss Alice Lindsell in an article entitled ‘Was Theocritus a Botanist?’ (Greece and Rome, vi, pp. 78–93), in which she shows not only that Theocritus, who was originally trained for the medical profession, was a scientific botanist, but also that his botanical references can be used to locate the scenes of the various poems.

^{page 59 note 1} In actual fact the fig is fertilized by the gallfly but not the date.

^{page 60 note 1} Or possibly F. marmarica, which still grows in Cyrenaica (see Journ. Bot., March 1941, p. 36).

^{page 62 note 1} The mention of the roses which grew in the garden of Midas (viii. 138) seems to be the only instance in which he refers to flowers for their own sake.

^{page 62 note 2} The only mention of such methods is the use of the gall-fly for fructifying the date-palm and the fig (i. 193).

^{page 63 note 1} Unless, indeed, we see a reference to rice in H.'s mention of a ‘grain, growing naturally from the earth, about the size of millet-seed, which they [the Indians] gather and roast and eat, husk and all’ (iii. 100).