[2029] Ibid., lib. iv. cap. 9.
[2030] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 7.
[2031] Pausanias, lib. v., cap. 5; lib. vi. cap. 26; Pliny, lib. xix. cap. 1. See Brandes, Baumwolle, p. 96.
[2032] C. Ritter, Die Geographische Verbreitung der Baumwolle, p. 25.
[2033] It is impossible not to remark the resemblance between this name and that of flax in Arabic, kattan or kittan; it is an example of the confusion which takes place in names where there is an analogy between the products.
[2034] De Lasteyrie, Du Cotonnier, p. 290.
[2035] Torrey and Asa Gray, Flora of North America, i. p. 230; Darlington, Agricultural Botany, p. 16.
[2036] Schouw, Naturschilderungen, p. 152.
[2037] Masters, in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. p. 211; Hooker, Fl. of Brit. Ind., i. p. 347; Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 265 (under the name Gossypium nigrum); Parlatore, Specie dei Cotoni, p. 25.
[2038] Rosellini, Monumenti dell’ Egizia, p. 2; Mon. Civ., i. p. 60.