[79] Olivier de Serres, Théâtre de l’Agriculture, p. 471.
[80] Bauhin, Hist. Pl., iii. p. 154.
[81] The best information about the cultivation of this plant was given by Bancroft to Sir W. Hooker, and may be found in the Botanical Magazine, pl. 3092. A. P. de Candolle published, in La 5e Notice sur les Plantes Rares des Jardin Bot. de Genève, an illustration showing the principal bulb.
[82] Grisebach, Flora of British West-India Islands.
[83] Bertoloni, Flora Italica, ii. p. 146; Decaisne, Recherches sur la Garance, p. 68; Boissier, Flora Orientalis, iii. p. 17; Ledebour, Flora Rossica, ii. p. 405.
[84] Cosson and Germain, Flore des Environs de Paris, ii. p. 365.
[85] Kirschleger, Flore d’Alsace, i. p. 359.
[86] Willkomm and Lange, Prodromus Floræ Hispanicæ, ii. p. 307.
[87] Ball, Spicilegium Floræ Maroccanæ, p. 483; Munby, Catal. Plant. Alger., edit. 2, p. 17.
[88] Piddington, Index.