FOOTNOTES
[1] The name, indeed, of one of our colours is taken from its blossoms.
This Quotation from Gerard referring to its Smell belongs to the Philadelphus coronarius or Mock-orange which both by him and Parkinson is called Syringa, & which led to the Mistake.
Florida sed postquam venêre in prata puellæ,
His illa, hæc aliis se floribus oblectabant;
Narcisso illa quidem bene olente, atq; illa Hyacintho.
Pro molli Viola, pro purpureo Narcisso,
Carduus et spinis surgit Paliurus acutis.
Nusquam corpus erat, croceum pro corpore florem
Inveniunt, foliis medium cingentibus albis.
[5] In saxosis udis alpium. Jacq.
[6] Radix perennis. Jacq.
[7] In petrosis collibus et asperis, fabulosis apricisque locis, apud Germanos nascitur. Pempt. p. 177.
[8] Sponte in sylvaticis, montosis (Carn. Siles. Tubing) Germanys Fl. 1791. p. 147.