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.