[1162] Boissier, ibid.

[1163] Maximowicz, Prim. Ussur.; Regel, Opit. Flori, etc., on the plants of the Ussuri collected by Maak; Schmidt, Reisen Amur. Franchet and Savatier do not mention it in their Enum. Jap. Bretschneider quotes a Chinese name which, he says, applies also to other species.

[1164] Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., i. p. 261.

[1165] Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la France, edit. 3, vol. ii. p. 236.

[1166] Boissier, ubi supra.

[1167] Orig. Indo-Eur., i. p. 276.

[1168] Heldreich, Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, i. p. 64.

[1169] Theophrastus, De Causis, lib. 6, cap. 24.

[1170] Heer, Pfahlbauten, p. 24, figs. 1-7.

[1171] Sordelli, Sulle Piante della Stazione di Lagozza, p. 35.

[1172] Boissier, Fl. Orient., ii. p. 656; Ledebour, Fl. Ross., ii. p. 55.

[1173] Steven, Verzeichniss Taurien, p. 150; Sibthorp, Prodr. Fl. Græcæ, i. p. 344.

[1174] Boissier, ibid.

[1175] Nemnich, Polyglott Lexicon.

[1176] Nemnich, Poly. Lex.

[1177] Ibid.

[1178] Heldreich, Nutz. Griech., p. 64.

[1179] In 4to, Napoli, 1879.

[1180] De re Rustica, lib. 7, cap. 2.

[1181] Boissier, Fl. Orient., ii. p. 737; Sir J. Hooker, Fl. of Brit. Ind., ii. p. 581.

[1182] Quoted from Royle, Illus. Himal., p. 208.

[1183] Ledebour, Fl. Ross., ii. p. 104.

[1184] Munby, Fl. Alger., p. 49; Spicilegium Flora Maroccanæ, p. 458.

[1185] Boissier, ibid.

[1186] Bretschneider, On Study and Value, etc., p. 16.

[1187] Piddington, Index.

[1188] Rosenmüller, Bibl. Naturge., i. p. 273; Hamilton, La Bot. de la Bible, Nice, 1871, p. 48.

[1189] Hehn, Kultur und Hausthiere aus Asien, edit. 3, p. 106.

[1190] Hehn, ibid.

[1191] Lenz, Bot. der Alten Grie. und Röm., p. 681.

[1192] Heldreich, Die Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, p. 64.

[1193] Fraas, Fl. Class., p. 79; Heldreich, ibid.

[1194] Hehn, ibid.

[1195] Pliny, lib. 13, c. 19.

[1196] Dictionnaire Français-Berbère, published by the French Government.

[1197] De Saporta, Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, April 5, 1869, pp. 767-769.

[1198] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 191.

[1199] Descourtilz, Flore Médicale des Antilles, v. pl. 315.

[1200] Miquel, Sumatra, p. 118; Flora Indiæ-Batavæ, i. p. 425; Blume, Museum Lugd.-Bat., i. p. 93.

[1201] Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 474; Baker, Fl. of Maurit., etc., p. 115; Grisebach, Fl. of Brit. W. Ind. Isles, p. 235.

[1202] Rumphius, Amboin, i. p. 121, t. 37.

[1203] Tussac, Flore des Antilles, iii. p. 89, pl. 25.

[1204] Forster, Plantis Esculentis, p. 36.

[1205] Blume, Museum Lugd.-Bat., i. p. 91; Miquel, Fl. Indiæ-Batav., i. p. 411; Hooker, Flora of British India, ii. p. 472.

[1206] Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Indies, p. 235; Baker, Fl. of Mauritius, p. 115.

[1207] Raddi, Di Alcune Specie di Pero Indiano, in 4to, Bologna, 1821, p. 1.

[1208] Martius, Syst. Nat. Medicæ Bras., p. 32; Blume, Museum Lugd.-Bat., i. p. 71; Hasskarl, in Flora, 1844, p. 589; Sir J. Hooker, Fl. of Brit. Ind., ii. p 468.

[1209] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 893.

[1210] Lowe, Flora of Madeira, p. 266.

[1211] See Blume, ibid.; Descourtilz, Flore Médicale des Antilles, ii. p. 20, in which there is a good illustration of the pyriform guava. Tussac, Flore des Antilles, gives a good plate of the round form. These two latter works furnish interesting details on the use of the guava, on the vegetation of the species, etc.

[1212] Rumphius, Amboin, i. p. 141; Rheede, Hortus Malabariensis, iii. t. 34.

[1213] Bojer, Hortus Mauritianus; Baker, Flora of Mauritius, p. 112.

[1214] All the floras, and Berg in Flora Brasiliensis, vol. xiv. p. 196.

[1215] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 894.

[1216] Acosta, Hist. Nat. et Morale des Indes Orient. et Occid., French trans., 1598, p. 175.

[1217] Hernandez, Nova Hispaniæ Thesaurus, p. 85.

[1218] Piso, Hist. Brasil., p. 74; Marcgraf, ibid., p. 105.

[1219] The word gourd is also used in English for Cucurbita maxima. This is one of the examples of the confusion in common names and the greater accuracy of scientific terms.

[1220] Naudin, Annales des Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 91; Cogniaux, in our Monog. Phanérog., iii. p. 417.

[1221] Linnæus, Species Plantarum, p. 1434, under Cucurbita.

[1222] A. P. de Candolle, Flora Française (1805), vol. iii. p. 692.

[1223] Rheede, Malabar, iii. pls. 1, 5; Royle, Ill. Himal., p. 218.

[1224] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, vol. iii. p. 719.

[1225] Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v. p. 397, t. 144.

[1226] Piddington, Index, at the word Cucurbita lagenaria; Ad. Pictet, Origines Indo-Europ., edit. 3, vol. i. p. 386.

[1227] Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 106.

[1228] Bentham, Flora Australiensis, iii. p. 316.

[1229] Described first under the name Lagenaria idolatrica. A. Richard, Tentamen Fl. Abyss., i. p. 293, and later, Naudin and Cogniaux, recognized its identity with L. vulgaris.

[1230] Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. Amer., i. p. 543; Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 288.

[1231] Bretschneider, letter of the 23rd of August, 1881.

[1232] Tragus, Stirp., p. 285; Ruellius, De Natura Stirpium, p. 498; Naudin, ibid.

[1233] Pliny, Hist. Plant., l. 19, c. 5.

[1234] Ibn Alawâm, in E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, iii. p. 60; Ibn Baithar, Sondtheimer’s translation.

[1235] Unger, Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, p. 59; Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 137.

[1236] In 8vo, 1877, p. 17.

[1237] Rauwolf, Fl. Orient., p. 125.

[1238] Piso, Indiæ Utriusque., etc., edit. 1658, p. 264.

[1239] Marcgraf, Hist. Nat. Brasiliæ, 1648, p. 44.

[1240] Naudin, ibid.; Cogniaux, Flora Brasil., fasc. 78, p. 7; and de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 418.

[1241] Cl. Gay, Flora Chilena, ii. p. 403.

[1242] Jos. Acosta, French trans., p. 167.

[1243] Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 861.

[1244] Pickering, ibid.

[1245] Ramusio, vol. iii. p. 112.

[1246] P. Brown, Jamaica, edit. ii. p. 354.

[1247] Elliott, Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia, ii. p. 663.

[1248] Torrey and Gray, Flora of N. America, i. p. 544.

[1249] Asa Gray, in the American Journal of Science, 1857, vol. xxiv. p. 442.

[1250] Trumbull, in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. vi. p. 69.

[1251] Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. vi. p. 5; vol. xii. p. 84.

[1252] Ibid., 4th series, vol. xviii. p. 160; vol. xix. p. 180.

[1253] As much as 200 lbs., according to the Bon Jardinier, 1850, p. 180.

[1254] Hooker, Fl. of Trop. Afr., ii. p. 555.

[1255] Lobel, Icones, t. 641. The illustration is reproduced in Dalechamp’s Hist., i. p. 626.

[1256] Clarke, Hooker’s Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 622.

[1257] Bretschneider, letter of Aug. 23, 1881.

[1258] The list is given by E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, iii. p. 401. The Cucurbita of which he speaks must have been the gourd, Lagenaria.

[1259] Piso, Brazil., edit. 1658, p. 264; Marcgraf, edit. 1648, p. 44.

[1260] Harris, American Journal, 1857, vol. xxiv. p. 441; Trumbull, Bull. of Torrey Bot. Club, 1876, vol. vi. p. 69.

[1261] Asa Gray, Botany of the Northern States, edit. 1868, p. 186.

[1262] Darlington, Flora Cestrica, 1853, p. 94.

[1263] Géogr. Bot. Raisonnée, p. 902.

[1264] Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 3rd series, vol. vi. p. 9; Cogniaux, in de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 546.

[1265] Asa Gray, Plantæ Lindheimerianæ, part ii. p. 198.

[1266] Molina, Hist. Nat. du Chili, p. 377.

[1267] Cogniaux, in Monogr. Phanér. and Flora Brasil., fasc. 78, p. 21.

[1268] Cogniaux, Fl. Bras. and Monogr. Phanér., iii., p. 547.

[1269] See the excellent plate in Wight’s Icones, t. 507, under the erroneous name of Cucurbita maxima.

[1270] Cogniaux, in Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 547.

[1271] Miquel, Sumatra, under the name Gymnopetalum, p. 332.

[1272] Cogniaux, in Monogr. Phanér.

[1273] Gardener’s Chronicle, articles signed “I. H. H.,” 1857, p. 153; 1858, p. 130.

[1274] Cogniaux, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 485.

[1275] Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xviii. p. 171.

[1276] Hooker, in Oliver, Fl. of Trop. Afr., ii. p. 546.

[1277] Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 267.

[1278] Schumacher and Thonning, Guineiske Planten., p. 426.

[1279] Cogniaux, in de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., p. 483.

[1280] Bretschneider, letter of Aug. 26, 1881.

[1281] Piddington, Index.

[1282] See the copy in Unger’s Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, fig. 25.

[1283] Galen, De Alimentis, l. 2, c. 5.

[1284] See all the Vergilian floras, and Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 111.

[1285] Comes, Ill. Piante nei Dipinti Pompeiani, in 4to, p. 20, in the Museo Nation., vol. iii. pl. 4.

[1286] Habitat in Apulia, Calabria, Sicilia (Linnæus, Species, edit. 1763, p. 1435).

[1287] Seringe, in Prodromus, iii. p. 301.

[1288] Naudin, Ann. sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 101; Sir J. Hooker, in Oliver, Flora of Trop. Afr., ii. p. 549.

[1289] French trans., p. 56.

[1290] Unger has copied the figures from Lepsius’ work in his memoir Die Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, figs. 30, 31, 32.

[1291] Dictionnaire Français-Berber, at the word pastèque.

[1292] Moris, Flora Sardoa.

[1293] Piddington, Index.

[1294] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 17.

[1295] Heldreich, Pflanz. d. Attisch. Ebene., p. 591; Nutzpfl. Griechenl., p. 50.

[1296] Langkavel, Bot. der Spät. Griechen.

[1297] Forskal, Flora Ægypto-Arabica, part i. p. 34.

[1298] Nemnich, Polyg. Lexic., i. p. 1309.

[1299] Piddington, Index; Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 72.

[1300] Heldreich, Nutzpfl., etc., p. 50.

[1301] “Sativa planta et tractu temporis quasi nativa facta” (Piso, edit. 1658, p. 233).

[1302] Naudin, in Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xi. p. 31.

[1303] Wildenow, Species, iv. p. 615.

[1304] Piddington, Index.

[1305] Bot. Mag., pl. 6206.

[1306] Cogniaux, in de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 499.

[1307] Bretschneider, letters of Aug. 23 and 26, 1881.

[1308] Theophrastus, Hist., lib. 7, cap. 4; Lenz, Bot. der Alten, p. 492.

[1309] Heldreich, Nutzpfl. Griechen., p. 50.

[1310] Nemnich, Polygl. Lex., i. p. 1306.

[1311] Nemnich, ibid.

[1312] Forskal, Fl. Ægypt., p. 76.

[1313] Rosenmüller, Biblische Alterth., i. p. 97; Hamilton, Bot. de la Bible, p. 34.

[1314] Descourtilz, Fl. Méd. des Antilles, v. pl. 329; Hooker, Bot. Mag., t. 5817; Cogniaux, in Fl. Brasil., fasc. 78, pl. 2.

[1315] Browne, Jamaica, edit. 2, p. 353.

[1316] Grisebach, Fl. of Brit. W. India Is., p. 288.

[1317] Cogniaux, ubi supra.

[1318] Guanerva-oba, in Piso, Brasil., edit. 1658, p. 264; Marcgraf, edit. 1648, p. 44, without illustration, calls it Cucumis sylvestris Brasiliæ.

[1319] Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. ii. p. 12.

[1320] Darlington, Agric. Bot., p. 58.

[1321] Cucurbita Pepo of Loureiro and Roxburgh.

[1322] Clarke, in Fl. of Brit. Ind., ii. p. 616.

[1323] Cogniaux, in de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 513.

[1324] Thunberg, Fl. Jap., p. 322; Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap., i. p. 173.

[1325] Hasskarl, Catal. Horti. Bogor. Alter., p. 190; Miquel, Flora Indo-Batav.