Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[2039] Parlatore, Specie dei Cotoni, p. 16.

[2040] Pliny, Hist. Plant., lib. xix. cap. 1.

[2041] Pollux, Onomasticon, quoted by C. Ritter, ubi supra, p. 26.

[2042] Reynier, Économie des Arabes et des Juifs., p. 363; Bertoloni, Noc. Act. Acad. Bonon., ii. p. 213, and Miscell. Bot., 6; Viviani, in Bibl. Ital., vol. lxxxi. p. 94; C. Ritter, Géogr. Verbreitung der Baumwolle, in 4to.; Targioni, Cenni Storici, p. 93; Brandis, Der Baumwolle in Alterthum, in 8vo. 1880.

[2043] Masters, in Oliver, Flora of Trop. Africa, i. p. 322; and in Hooker, Flora of Brit. India, i. p. 347.

[2044] He says, for instance, of Gossypium herbaceum, which is certainly of the old world, as facts known before his time show, “habitat in America.”

[2045] Nascitur in calidis humidisque cultis præcipue locis (Hernandez, Novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurus, p. 308).

[2046] Hemsley, Biologia Centrali-Americana, i. p. 123.

[2047] Macfadyen, Flora of Jamaica, p. 72.

[2048] Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. India Is., p. 86.