[2694] Journ. de Pharm. i. (1865) 270.
[2695] Consul Kortright, in Consular Reports presented to Parliament, July 1872, p. 988.
[2696] Introduced into Europe in 1850, by M. de Montigny, French Consul at Shanghai.—Sicard, Monographie de la Canne à sucre de la Chine, dite Sorgho à sucre, Marseille, 1856; Joulie, Journ. de Pharm. i. (1865) 188.
[2697] How the word Treacle came to be transferred from its application to an opiate medicine to become a name for molasses, we know not. In the description of sugar-making given by Salmon in his English Physician or Druggist’s Shop opened, Lond. 1663, treacle is never mentioned, but only “melussas.”
[2698] Landolt, Zeitschr. für analyt. Chem. vii. (1868) 1-29.
[2699] On Chinese Botanical Works, etc., Foochow, 1870. 7. 8.
[2700] Metapontum lay in the plain between the rivers Bradano and Basento in the gulf of Taranto.
[2701] He actually examined wheat, not barley; we assume the chemical constitution of the two grains to be similar.
[2702] Wittstein, Vierteljahresschr. für prakt. Pharm. xii. (1863) 4-23.
[2703] Major-General Munro has at our request investigated the botanical characters of the fragrant species of Andropogon, and examined a numerous suite of specimens in our possession. The synonyms in foot-notes are given upon his authority.