The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[2573]. Dioscor. i. 80. Plin. Nat. xii. 19.

[2574]. Dioscor. ii. 19.

[2575]. Dioscor. iii. 52.

[2576]. The shrub is twelve feet high and flowers in May. Hazelquist, Travels, p. 247. Cf. Dioscor. i. 12.

[2577]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 5. 1. Dioscor. i. 13. Prosper. Alpin. de Medicin. Ægypt. iv. 9, p. 304. Hen. van Rheede, Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, p. 107, sqq. Carletti, who travelled towards the close of the sixteenth century, gives a lively description of the cinnamon tree, the leaves of which he compares to those of the peach tree. Viaggi, &c., t. ii. p. 231. Baldæus, Description of Ceylon, chapter iv.

[2578]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 5. 2.

[2579]. Dioscor. i. 21.

[2580]. Id. ii. 204.

[2581]. Id. i. 15.

[2582]. Prosper. Alpin. de Medicin. Ægypt. iv. 9, p. 302.