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SEA FABLES EXPLAINED. 



anecdote of ^Eneas Sylvius, appears to have entertained no 

 doubt of the truth of the report, for he writes :— 



FIG. 34. — THE GOOSE TREE. Copied froui Gerard s '■ Herb all,' \st edition.* 

 " In Scotland there are trees which produce fruit, conglomerated of 



* The original of this picture is a small wood-cut in Matthias de 

 Lobel's ' Stirpium Historia,' pubUshed in 1870. The birds within the 

 shells were added by Gerard. Aldrovandus, in copying it, gave leaves 

 to the tree, as shown on page no. 



