Note 401 — BOOK XXIV. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
“Laughing leaves.” Possibly, Fée thinks, the Ranunculus philonotis, the Herba Sardoa or Sardonic plant of Virgil, known by some authorities as the Apium risus, or “laughing parsley.” Desfontaines suggests that hemp (prepared in the form of hasheesh) is meant.