[1689] Heldreich, Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, p. 73; Die Pflanzen der Attischen Ebene, p. 477; Gussone, Syn. Fl. Sic., p. 646; Bianca, Il Carrubo, in the Giornale d’Agricoltura Italiana, 1881; Munby, Catal. Pl. in Alg. Spont., p. 13.
[1690] Hœfer, Hist. Bot. Minér. et Géol., 1 vol. in 12mo., p. 20; Bonné, Le Caroubier, ou l’Arbre des Lotophages, Algiers, 1869 (quoted by Hœfer). See above, the article on the jujube tree.
[1691] Pliny, Hist., lib. i. cap. 30.
[1692] Theophrastus, Hist. Plant., lib. i. cap. 11; Dioscorides, lib. i. cap. 155; Fraas, Syn. Fl. Class., p. 65.
[1693] Ebn Baithar, German trans., i. p. 354; Forskal, Fl. Ægypt., p. 77.
[1694] Columna, quoted by Lenz, Bot. der Alten, p. 73; Pliny, Hist., lib. xiii. cap. 8.
[1695] Dict. Franç.-Berbère, at the word Caroube.
[1696] Lexicon Oxon., quoted by Pickering, Chron. Hist. of Plants, p. 141.
[1697] The drawing is reproduced in Unger’s Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, fig. 22. The observation which he quotes from Kotschy needs confirmation by a special anatomist.
[1698] A. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 961.