Note 2368 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.
John Bostock translation
“Teredo.” If he means under this name to include the tinea as well, the assertion is far too general, as this wood is eaten away by insects, though more slowly than the majority of the non-resinous woods. It is sometimes perforated quite through by the larvæ of the byrrhus, our death-watch.