[2458] Dante, Divina commedia, cant. xvi.
[2459] De omnibus agriculturæ partibus, Basil. 1548. 219.
[2460] Dispensatorium, Norimb. 1529. 288.
[2461] Groves, Pharm. Journ. iii. (1872) 229.—We have also to thank him for information communicated personally.
[2462] The produce of some previous operations, in which 23 cwt. of orris was distilled, afforded but little over one-tenth per cent.
[2463] Pharm. Journ. vii. (1876) 130.
[2464] Consular Reports, 1876. 1416.
[2465] The word Saffron is derived from the Arabic Asfar, yellow.
[2466] Chappellier has pointed out that Crocus sativus L. is unknown in a wild state, and that it hardly ever produces seed even though artificially fertilized; and has argued from these facts that it is probably a hybrid.—Bulletin de la Soc. bot. de France, xx. (1853) 191.
[2467] Canticles, ch. iv. 14.