[1849] A specimen determined by Reuter in Boissier’s Herbarium.

[1850] Figari and de Notaris, Agrostologiæ Ægypt. Fragm., p. 18.

[1851] A very starved plant gathered by Kotschy, No. 290, of which I possess a specimen. Boissier terms it H. distichon, varietas.

[1852] C. A. Meyer, Verzeichniss, p. 26, from specimens seen also by Ledebour, Fl. Ross., iv. p. 327.

[1853] Ledebour, ibid.

[1854] Regel, Descr. Plant., Nov., 1881, fasc. 8, p. 37.

[1855] Willdenow, Sp. Plant., i. p. 473.

[1856] Theophrastus, Hist. Plant., lib. viii. cap. 4.

[1857] Heer, Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten, p. 13; Messicommer, Flora Bot. Zeitung, 1869, p. 320.

[1858] Theophrastus, Hist., lib. viii. cap. 4.