Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1509] C. Ritter, ibid., p. 828.

[1510] According to Roxburgh, Royle, etc.

[1511] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 31.

[1512] According to Schmidt, Fl. d. Cap.-Verd. Isl., p. 168, the date-palm is rare in these islands, and is certainly not wild. Webb and Berthelot, on the contrary, assert that in some of the Canaries it is apparently indigenous (Hist. Nat. des Canaries, Botanique, iii. p. 289).

[1513] Humboldt, Nouvelle Espagne, 1st edit., ii. p. 360.

[1514] Oviedo, Hist. Nat., 1556, p. 112. Oviedo’s first work is of 1526. He is the earliest naturalist quoted by Dryander (Bibl. Banks) for America.

[1515] I have also seen this passage in the translation of Oviedo by Ramusio, vol. iii. p. 115.

[1516] Humboldt, Nouvelle Espagne, 2nd edit., p. 385.

[1517] Garcilasso de la Vega, Commentarios Reales, i. p. 282.

[1518] Acosta, Hist. Nat. De Indias, 1608, p. 250.