Boissier, Fl. Orient., ii. p. 602; Moris, Fl. Sard., i. p. 582.
529
Willkomm and Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp.
530
Boissier, Fl. Orient.
531
Theophrastus, Hist. Plant., viii. c. 8; Columella, De rei rustica, ii. c. 10; Pliny, Hist., xviii. c. 16.
532
Fraas, Syn. Fl. Class., p. 63; Lenz, Bot. der Alten, p. 719.
533
Baker, in Hooker’s Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 57.
534
Schweinfurth, Beitr. z. Fl. Æthiop., p. 258.
535
Baker, in Hooker’s Fl. Brit. Ind.
536
Boissier, Fl. Orient., ii. p. 70.
537
Boissier, ibid.
538
Sibthorp, Fl. Græca, t. 766; Lenz, Bot. der Alten, Bertoloni, Fl. Ital., viii. p. 250; Willkomm and Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp., iii. p. 390.
539
Caruel, Fl. Tosc., p. 256; Willkomm and Lange.
540
The plants which spread from one country to another introduce themselves into islands with more difficulty, as will be seen from the remarks I formerly published. Géogr. Bot. Raisonnée, p. 706).
541
Piddington, Index.
542
Ainslie, Mat. Med. Ind., i. p. 130.
543
Rosenmüller, Bibl. Alterth.
544
As usual, Fick’s dictionary of Indo-European languages does not mention the name of this plant, which the English say is Sanskrit.
545
Brotero, Flora Lusitanica, ii. p. 160.
546
Cosson, Notes sur Quelques Plantes Nouvelles ou Critiques du Midi de l’Espagne, p. 36.
547
Bon Jardinier, 1880, p. 512.
548
Boissier, Fl. Orient., i. p. 731.
549
Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 243, and several specimens from the Nilgherries and Ceylon in my herbarium.
550
Zollinger, No. 2556 in my herbarium.
551
Piddington, Index.
552
Sobolewski, Fl. Petrop., p. 109.
553
Rafn, Danmarks Flora, ii. p. 799.
554
Wahlenberg, quoted by Moritzi, Dict. MS.; Svensk Botanik, t. 308.
555
Bauhin, Hist. Plant., iii. p. 722.
556
Spergula Maxima, Böninghausen, an illustration published in Reichenbach’s Plantæ Crit., vi. p. 513.
557
Panicum maximum, Jacq., Coll. 1, p. 71 (1786); Jacq., Icones 1, t. 13; Swartz, Fl. Indiæ Occ., vii. p. 170; P. polygamum, Swartz, Prodr., p. 24 (1788); P. jumentorum, Persoon Ench., i. p. 83 (1805); P. altissimum of some gardens and modern authors. According to the rule, the oldest name should be adopted.
558
In Dominica according to Imray, in the Kew Report for 1879, p. 16.
559
Nees, in Martius, Fl. Brasil., in 8vo, vol. ii. p. 166.
560
Dœll, in Fl. Brasil., in fol., vol. ii. part 2.
561
Sir W. Hooker, Niger Fl., p. 560.
562
Nees, Floræ Africæ Austr. Gramineæ, p. 36.
563
A. Richard, Abyssinie, ii. p. 373.
564
Peters, Reise Botanik, p. 546.
565
Bojer, Hortus Maurit., p. 565.
566
Baker, Fl. of Mauritius and Seychelles, p. 436.
567
Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeylaniæ.
568
Seemann, Tr. of the Linnæan Society, xxii. p. 337, pl. 61.
569
Kæmpfer, Amæn. Japon.
570
Bretschneider, On the Study and Value of Chin. Bot. Works, pp. 13 and 45.
571
Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap., i. p. 61.
572
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