[1418] Sontheimer’s translation, ii. (1842) 179.
[1419] Haq’recarcha; see Steinschneider, in Rohlfs’ Archiv für Geschichte der Medicin (1879) 342.
[1420] Meddygon Myddfai ([see Appendix]) 184. 292. 374.
[1421] Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay in 1871-72, pt. ii. 19. 98.
[1422] For further information on the medicinal species of Anacyclus, see a paper by Dr. P. Ascherson in Bonplandia, 15 April 1858.
[1423] De Stirpium ..., 1552. 149.—In Germany the epithet edel (= nobilis) is frequently used in popular botany to designate useful or remarkable plants. Tragus may have been induced to bestow it on the species under notice, on account of its superiority to Matricaria Camomilla, the so-called Common Chamomile of the Germans.
[1424] De distillatione, Romæ, 1608. 83.
[1425] About £9 per cwt., Foreign Chamomiles being worth from £3 to £4.
[1426] Information obligingly given by Messrs. Schimmel & Co., Leipzig. The oil distilled by them was examined in Prof. Fittig’s laboratory, Strassburg.
[1427] Is not this plant the Anthemis? parthenioides Bernh., of which De Candolle says (Prod. vi. 7)—“ ... simillima Mat. Parthenio, sed paleis inter flores instructa. Ferè semper plena in hortis occurrit, et forte ideo paleæ receptaculi ex luxuriante statu ortæ ut in Chrysanthemi indico et sinensi ...”?