A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2)

1594

Haller, Histor. Stirpium, i. p. 272, n. 612.

1595

Spectacle de la Nature, ii. p. 49.

1596

Des Blumisten vol. i. Erfurt, 1783, 8vo, p. 5.

1597

[It also occurs wild in the eastern and southern parts of England.]

1598

Clusii Hist. Plant. ii. p. 154.

1599

Ibid. i. p. 128. Dodonæi Pempt. p. 202.

1600

Clusii Hist. Plant. i. p. 130.

1601

Dodonæi Florum Hist. p. 62. Bauhini Hist. Plant. iii. p. 98.

1602

Hist. Plantar. i. p. 157.

1603

Abhandl. der Schwed. Akad. iv.

1604

Hortus Cliffort. p. 135.

1605

Beobacht. v. einigen Blumen, 1769, 8vo.

1606

Barrere, Hist. Nat. de la France Equinoxiale. Traité de la Culture du Nopal, par T. de Menonville, 1787, 8vo.

1607

Flora Japonica. The Japanese consider the bulbs poisonous.

1608

J. Cornuti Canad. Plantarum aliarumque Historia. Par. 1635, 4to.

1609

A complete Florilege, furnished with all the requisites belonging to a florist. London, 1665, fol. lib. i. cap. 10, p. 74.

1610

Morisoni Plantarum Historia, pars 2. Ox. 1680, fol. p. 367.

1611

Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary. [Of one species alone no less than eight hundred varieties were known at the end of the last century.]

1612

Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, vol. ii. p. 15. – Traité des Renoncules (par D’Ardene), Paris, 1746, 8vo. – Pluche, Spectacle de la Nature, vol. i.

1613

Nicholson’s Journal, July 1800, p. 179.

1614

Philosophical Magazine, 1805.

1615

Phil. Trans. 1831, p. 147.