Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[809] Theophrastus, Hist., 1. 6, c. 6.

[810] J. Bauhin, Hist., ii. p. 637.

[811] Royle, Ill. Himal.

[812] Sibthorp, Prodr.; Fraas, Syn. Fl. Class., p. 292.

[813] J. Gay, quoted by Babington, Man. Brit. Fl.

[814] Maw, in the Gardener’s Chron., 1881, vol. xvi.

[815] Jacquemont, Voyage, vol. iii. p. 238.

[816] The word fruit is here employed in the vulgar sense, for any fleshy part which enlarges after the flowering. In the strictly botanical sense, the Anonaceæ, strawberries, cashews, pine-apples, and breadfruit are not fruits.

[817] A. squamosa is figured in Descourtilz, Flore des Antilles, ii. pl. 83; Hooker’s Bot. Mag., 3095; and Tussac, Flore des Antilles, iii. pl. 4.

[818] A. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 859.