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.