[68] Hist. Plant. iv. c. 7.
[69] Lib. iv. c. 95.
[70] Lib. xxvi. c. 10; xxxii. c. 6.
[71] Hardouin quotes Aristot. Hist. Animal. vi. c. 9. But that naturalist speaks of a sea-weed which was cast on shore by the Hellespont. A dye or paint was made of it, and the people in the neighbourhood imagined that the purple of this sea-weed, which served as food to certain shell-fish, communicated to them their beautiful dye. A proof that sea-weeds (fuci) can communicate a red colour may be found in the Transactions of the Swedish Academy, iv. p. 29.
[72] Voyage du Levant. Amsterd. 1718, 4to, i. p. 89.
[73] “Præterea Amorgina, optima quidem in Amorgo fiunt, sed et hæc e lino esse asserunt. Tunica autem Amorgina etiam amorgis nuncupatur.”—Onomasticon, vii. c. 16.
[74] Histor. Nat. lib. xxvii. c. 11.
[75] Pinax Plant. p. 365. Hist. Plant. iii. 2. p. 796.
[76] Other accounts say that he was an Englishman; but the name Frederigo confirms his German extraction.
[77] Giornale de’ Letterati d’ Italia, t. xxxiii. parte i. p. 231.