[179] Notice sur l’Amélioration des Plantes par le Semis, p. 15.
[180] Pohl, Plantarum Brasiliæ Icones et Descriptiones, in fol., vol. i.
[181] J. Müller, in Prodromus, xv., sect. 2, pp. 1062-1064.
[182] Sagot, Bull. de la Soc. Bot. de France, Dec. 8, 1871.
[183] I give the essentials of the preparation; the details vary according to the country. See on this head: Aublet, Guyane, ii. p. 67; Decourtilz, Flora des Antilles, iii. p. 113; Sagot, etc.
[184] R. Brown, Botany of the Congo, p. 50.
[185] Humboldt, Nouvelle Espagne, edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 398.
[186] Hist. de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1824.
[187] Guillemin, Archives de Botanique, i. p. 239.
[188] Acosta, Hist. Nat. des Indes, French trans., 1598, p. 163.