[1801] Adansonia, x. 246; Association Française pour l’avancement de la Science, Comptes Rendus de la 1ʳᵉ Session, 1872. 514-529. pl. x.—The figure which is reproduced in Lanessan’s French translation of the Pharmacographia, ii. (Paris, 1878) 210, gives a good idea of the highly ornamental character of Rheum officinale.
[1802] For further particulars see Flückiger, Pharm. J. vi. (1876) 861; also Proc. Americ. Pharm. Assoc. 1876. 130, with fig. showing Rheum officinale grown in a poor soil.
[1803] Bretschneider, Chinese Botanical Works, Foochow, 1870. 2.
[1804] Flückiger, l.c.
[1805] Scriptores Historiæ Romanæ latini veteres, ii. (1743) 511 (Amm. Marc. xxii. c. 8.)
[1806] De Compositione Medicamentorum, c. 167.
[1807] De Medicinâ. lib. v. c. 23.
[1808] Vincent, Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients, ii. (1807) 389.
[1809] Ibid., op. cit. ii. 390.
[1810] Ibid., op. cit. ii. 686.