[1279] Cogniaux, in de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., p. 483.
[1280] Bretschneider, letter of Aug. 26, 1881.
[1281] Piddington, Index.
[1282] See the copy in Unger’s Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, fig. 25.
[1283] Galen, De Alimentis, l. 2, c. 5.
[1284] See all the Vergilian floras, and Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 111.
[1285] Comes, Ill. Piante nei Dipinti Pompeiani, in 4to, p. 20, in the Museo Nation., vol. iii. pl. 4.
[1286] Habitat in Apulia, Calabria, Sicilia (Linnæus, Species, edit. 1763, p. 1435).
[1287] Seringe, in Prodromus, iii. p. 301.
[1288] Naudin, Ann. sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 101; Sir J. Hooker, in Oliver, Flora of Trop. Afr., ii. p. 549.