Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[499] Ledebour, Fl. Ross., i. p. 666; Hohenacker, Enum. Plant. Talysch, p. 113; C. A. Meyer, Verzeichniss, p. 147.

[500] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, iii. p. 323; Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 178.

[501] Piddington’s Index gives four.

[502] Targioni, Cenni Storici, p. 30.

[503] Cato, Be re Rustica, edit. 1535, p. 34; Pliny, bk. xviii. c. 15.

[504] Heldreich, Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, p. 71. In the earlier language than the Indo-Europeans, vik bears another meaning, that of “hamlet” (Fick, Vorterb. Indo-Germ., p. 189).

[505] Vilmorin, Bon Jardinier, 1880, p. 603.

[506] Targioni, Cenni Storici, p. 31; Bertoloni, Fl. Ital., vii. pp. 444, 447.

[507] Lenz, Botanik. d. Alten, p. 730.

[508] Fraas, Fl. Class.; Heldreich, Nutzflanzen Griechenlands.