Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[549] Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 243, and several specimens from the Nilgherries and Ceylon in my herbarium.

[550] Zollinger, No. 2556 in my herbarium.

[551] Piddington, Index.

[552] Sobolewski, Fl. Petrop., p. 109.

[553] Rafn, Danmarks Flora, ii. p. 799.

[554] Wahlenberg, quoted by Moritzi, Dict. MS.; Svensk Botanik, t. 308.

[555] Bauhin, Hist. Plant., iii. p. 722.

[556] Spergula Maxima, Böninghausen, an illustration published in Reichenbach’s Plantæ Crit., vi. p. 513.

[557] Panicum maximum, Jacq., Coll. 1, p. 71 (1786); Jacq., Icones 1, t. 13; Swartz, Fl. Indiæ Occ., vii. p. 170; P. polygamum, Swartz, Prodr., p. 24 (1788); P. jumentorum, Persoon Ench., i. p. 83 (1805); P. altissimum of some gardens and modern authors. According to the rule, the oldest name should be adopted.

[558] In Dominica according to Imray, in the Kew Report for 1879, p. 16.