Note 2539 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.
John Bostock translation
The Celtis australis of Linnæus. Pliny is in error in calling this tree the “Grecian bean.” In B. xiii. c. 22, he erroneously calls the African lotus by the name of “celtis,” which only belongs to the lotus of Italy; that of Africa being altogether different.