[1611] The Philippines were unknown to the Europeans of the Middle Ages. They were discovered by Magellan in 1521, but their conquest by the Spaniards was not effectually commenced until 1565. Previous to the Spanish occupation, they were governed by petty chiefs, and were frequented for the purposes of commerce by Japanese, Chinese, and Malays.
[1612] Martiny, Encyklopädie der Rohwaarenkunde, i. (1843) 576.
[1613] Pink Root is sometimes erroneously latinized in price-lists, “Radix caryophylli.”
[1614] De la famille des Loganiacées, 1856. 130.
[1615] Therapeutics and Materia Medica, Philadelphia, ii. (1868) 651.
[1616] Th. Martius, Pharm. Journ. xii. (1853) 371.
[1617] Grisebach (Die Vegetation der Erde, i. 1872. 223) gives very interesting particulars relating to the area of growth of Gentiana purpurea, G. punctata and G. pannonica. He is decidedly of the opinion that they are distinct species.
[1618] In Norway it is, strange to say, called sweetroot, “Sötrot,” according to Schübeler, Pflanzenwelt Norwegens, 1873-1875, p. 259.
[1619] Ὀϕέλλειν, to bless, in allusion to the medical virtues of the herb.—Fig. in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 7 (1876).
[1620] Cours d’Histoire nat. pharmaceutique, ii. (1828) 395.