Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1029] Sir J. Hooker, Fl. of Brit. India, ii, p. 313.

[1030] Steven, Verzeichniss Halbinselm, etc., p. 147.

[1031] Rehmann, Verhandl. Nat. Ver. Brunn, x. 1871.

[1032] Heldreich, Nutzpfl. Griech., p. 69; Pflanzen d’Attisch. Ebene., p. 477.

[1033] Viviani, Fl. Dalmat., iii. p. 258.

[1034] Bertoloni, Fl. Ital., v. p. 131.

[1035] Lecoc and Lamotte, Catal. du Plat. Centr. de la France, p. 148.

[1036] Theophrastes, Hist. Pl., lib. 3, c. 13; Pliny, lib. 15, c. 25, and others quoted in Lenz, Bot. der Alten Gr. and Röm., p. 710.

[1037] Part of the description of Theophrastus shows a confusion with other trees. He says, for instance, that the nut is soft.

[1038] Ad. Pictet quotes forms of the same name in Persian, Turkish, and Russian, and derives from the same source the French word guigne, now used for certain varieties of the cherry.