Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[589] Munby, Catal., edit. 2, p. 7.

[590] Rohlf, according to Cosson, Bulle. Soc. Bot. de Fr., 1875, p. 46.

[591] Planchon, in Hooker’s Journal of Botany, vol. 7; Bentham, Handbk. of Brit. Flora, edit. 4, p. 89.

[592] Planchon, ibid.

[593] Boissier, Fl. Or., i. p. 861.

[594] A. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 833.

[595] Thomson, Annals of Philosophy, June, 1834; Dutrochet, Larrey, and Costaz, Comptes rendus de l’Acad. des. Sc., Paris, 1837, sem. i. p. 739; Unger, Bot. Streifzüge, iv. p. 62.

[596] Other Hebrew words are interpreted “flax,” but this is the most certain. See Hamilton, La Botanique de la Bible, Nice, 1871, p. 58.

[597] Piddington, Index Ind. Plants; Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, ii. p. 110. The name matusi indicated by Piddington belongs to other plants, according to Ad. Pictet, Origines Indo-Euro., edit. 2, vol. i. p. 396.

[598] Heer, Die Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten, 8vo pamphlet, Zürich, 1865, p. 35; Ueber den Flachs und die Flachskultur in Alterthum, pamphlet in 8vo, Zürich, 1872.