[1122] Turner’s Herball, 1568, part i. 180.
[1123] I have not yet seen Yule’s paper on the dehiscence of this fruit in the Journ. of Anat. and Physiology, 1877. The structure of the testa of the seed is explained by Fickel, in the Botanische Zeitung, 1876. 774.—F. A. F..
[1124] Elem. of Mat. Med. ii. (1853) 1745.
[1125] Having had to procure elaterium fruits at Mitcham in the very fine summer of 1868, I was told that the people occupied in slicing the fruits had never suffered so severely from their work as in that year.—D. H.
[1126] There is a genus of Cucurbitaceæ founded by Linnæus, also called Elaterium.
[1127] Lond. Med. Repository, xii. (1820) 1.
[1128] Gmelin’s Chemistry, xvii. (1866) 335-367.
[1129] Clutterbuck says ⅛ of a grain purges violently.
[1130] Cockayne, Leechdoms, etc., i. (1865) 325.
[1131] Le Calendrier de Cordoue, publié par R. Dozy, Leyde, 1873. 92.