Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[709] Miquel, Sumatra, Germ. edit., p. 170.

[710] Bretschneider, On the Study and Value, etc., pp. 5, 10, 48.

[711] Piddington, Index; Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 2, vol. iii. p. 772.

[712] Roxburgh, ibid.

[713] Reynier, Économie des Celtes, p. 448; Legonidec, Dict. Bas-Breton.

[714] J. Humbert, formerly professor of Arabic at Geneva, says the name is kannab, kon-nab, hon-nab, hen-nab, kanedir, according to the locality.

[715] Athenæus, quoted by Hehn, Culturpflanzen, p. 168.

[716] Rosenmüller, Hand. Bibl. Alterth.

[717] Forskal, Flora; Delile, Flore d’Egypte.

[718] Reynier, Économie des Arabes, p. 434.