Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[609] Ibid.

[610] Ibid.

[611] Fick, Vergl. Worterbuch. Ind. Germ., 2nd edit., i. p. 722. He also derives the name Lina from the Latin linum; but this name is of earlier date, being common to several European Aryan languages.

[612] Pliny, bk. xix. c. 1: Vere satum æstate vellitur.

[613] Unger, Botanische Streifzüge, 1866, No. 7, p. 15.

[614] A. Braun, Die Pflanzenreste des Ægyptischen Museums in Berlin, in 8vo, 1877, p. 4.

[615] Rosellini, pls. 35 and 36, quoted by Unger, Bot. Streifzüge, No. 4, p. 62.

[616] W. Schimper, Ascherson, Boissier, Schweinfurth, quoted by Braun.

[617] Heer, Ueb. d. Flachs, p. 26.

[618] Maspero, Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient., edit. 3, Paris, 1878, p. 13.