Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[729] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 12.

[730] This name occurs in the Pent-sao, according to Ritter, Erdkunde, xvii. p. 489.

[731] Platt says (Zeitschrift d. Gesellsch. Erdkunde, 1871, p. 162) that its cultivation dates from 4000 years B.C.

[732] Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Plant. Jap., i. p. 433.

[733] Ant. Targioni, Cenni Storici sull’ Introduzione di Varie Piante nell’ Agricoltura Toscana, p. 188.

[734] Boissier, Fl. Orient., iv. p. 1153.

[735] Buhse, Aufzählung der Transcaucasien und Persien Pflanzen, p. 203.

[736] Ledebour, Fl. Ross., iii. p. 643.

[737] Steven, Verseichniss d. Taurisch. Halbins, p. 313; Heldreich, Pflanzen des Attischen Ebene, p. 508; Bertoloni, Fl. Ital., x. p. 177; Caruel, Fl. Toscana, p. 171.

[738] Bureau, de Cand., Prodr., xvii. p. 238.