[769] See the quotations from Strabo, Dioscorides, Pliny, etc., in Lenz, Botanik der Alten Griechen und Römer, 1859, p. 267; Fingerhut, in Flora, 1839, vol. ii. p. 529; and many other authors.
[770] Rosenmüller, Handbuch der Bibl. Alterth.
[771] Calendrier Rural de Harib, written in the tenth century for Spain, translated by Dureau de la Malle in his Climatologie de l’Italie et de l’Andalousie, p. 71.
[772] Von Buch, Canar. Ins.
[773] Piso, Brésil, p. 49.
[774] Humboldt, Nouv. Espagne, ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 34.
[775] Not. Stat. sur les Col. Franc., i. pp. 207, 29, 83.
[776] Macfadyen, in Hooker, Bot. Miscell., i. p. 101; Maycock, Fl. Barbad., p. 50.
[777] ii. p. 3.
[778] ii. tab. 3.