[1079] Prunus armeniaca of Thunberg is P. mume of Siebold and Zuccharini. The apricot is not mentioned in the Enumeratio, etc., of Franchet and Savatier.
[1080] Capus (Ann. Sc. Nat., sixth series, vol. xv. p. 206) found it wild in Turkestan at the height of four thousand to seven thousand feet, which weakens the hypothesis of a solely Chinese origin.
[1081] Piddington, Index; Roxburgh, Fl. Ind.; Forskal, Fl. Ægyp.; Delile Ill. Egypt.
[1082] Bretschneider, On the Study and Value, etc.
[1083] Bretschneider, Early European Researches, p. 149.
[1084] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 10; and Early Europ. Resear., p. 149.
[1085] Brandis, Forest Flora; Sir J. Hooker, Fl. of Brit. Ind., iii. p. 313.
[1086] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 500; Royle, Ill. Himal., p. 204.
[1087] Boissier, Fl. Orien., iii. p. 641.
[1088] K. Koch, Dendrologie, i. p. 80; Tchihatcheff, Asie Mineure Botanique, i. p. 108.