Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1249] Asa Gray, in the American Journal of Science, 1857, vol. xxiv. p. 442.

[1250] Trumbull, in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. vi. p. 69.

[1251] Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. vi. p. 5; vol. xii. p. 84.

[1252] Ibid., 4th series, vol. xviii. p. 160; vol. xix. p. 180.

[1253] As much as 200 lbs., according to the Bon Jardinier, 1850, p. 180.

[1254] Hooker, Fl. of Trop. Afr., ii. p. 555.

[1255] Lobel, Icones, t. 641. The illustration is reproduced in Dalechamp’s Hist., i. p. 626.

[1256] Clarke, Hooker’s Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 622.

[1257] Bretschneider, letter of Aug. 23, 1881.

[1258] The list is given by E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, iii. p. 401. The Cucurbita of which he speaks must have been the gourd, Lagenaria.