[982] Buchheim, Archiv der Pharmacie, 208 (1876) 417.
[983] Johnston in his Travels in Southern Abyssinia (1844), speaking of koso, says its effects are “dreadfully severe.”—Even in Abyssinia, he adds, it is barely tolerated, and if any other remedy equally efficient for dislodging tapeworm were to be introduced, koso would be soon abandoned.
[984] Reise nach Abessinien, etc. Jena, 1868. 322.
[985] Jobi Ludolfi Historia æthiopica, Francofurti, 1681. lib. i. cap. ix.
[986] It has been found in quasi-wild state at Charlwood in Surrey.—Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. ix. (1871) 273.
[987] Hist. Plant. lib. vi. c. 6.
[988] Consult in particular the learned essay of D’Orbessan contained in his Mélanges historiques, ii. (1768) 297-337.
[989] Pomet, Hist. des Drogues, 1694, part i. 174-177, speaks of the roses of Provins being “hautes en couleur, c’est à dire d’un rouge noir, velouté ... très astringentes.”
[990] Assier, Légendes, curiosités et traditions de la Champagne et de la Brie, Paris. 1860. 191.
[991] Stephanus (Carolus), De re hortens libellus, Paris, 1536. 29 (in Brit. Mus.).