[1281]. Plinius varia genera commemorat, Milesia ardentissimo colore, Alabandica albicantibus foliis, Spermonia vilissima, Damascenæ albæ distillandis aquis usurpantur. Differunt foliorum multitudine, asperitate, lævore, colore, odore.—Heresbachius, de Re Rustica, lib. ii. p. 121. a.
[1282]. Problem. xii. 8. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vi. 6. 5.
[1283]. Athen. xv. 29. Plin. xxi. 10. Cf. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vi. 6. 4.
[1284]. As Dr. Nolan seems to suppose. On the Grecian Rose. Transact. Roy. Soc. ii. 328. Though Theophrastus states the contrary very distinctly. Hist. Plant. vi. 2. 1—6. 4—7. 5. The white rose appears at present to be commonly cultivated in Attica.—Chandler, ii. 181.
[1285]. Geop. xi. 18. 13.
[1286]. Geop. xi. 18. 1.
[1287]. Pashley, Trav. i. 8, who observes, that the rose is common in February at Malta.
[1288]. Geop. xi. 18. 5. Plin. xxi. 4. Pallad. iii. 21. 2.
[1289]. Geop. xi. 18. 4. Cf. xii. 19. 3.
[1290]. Geop. xi. 20. Heresbach. de Re Rust. p. 122. b. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vi. 6. 4, 8.