already adverted to, in which that term was frequently used in 
earlier times. Ventenat's ' A. Schoenanthus ' has, of course, nothing 
to do with the classic « Sclwemnth us." It is what was subsequently 
issued by Sieber from the same island 
d.'smii.'d 'is A. ,,rui>v,*m. Ne.>s, !»y St.-ndel,* a form very closely 
allied to C>j „ l/on versicolor) of the 
Milgirisand Ceylon. 
The vagueness of Linnaeus's diagnosis and the absence or 
extreme rarity of herbarium specimens at that time on the one 
j;>n<l.an,l on rlie other rh- precision of Ventenat's desci-; 
figure, explain sufficiently why henceforth his '.4. SchOi 
was very generally taken as the type of that species, although it 
remained assigned to Linnaeus as the author. The identity of 
Linnaeus s original < A. Schoenanthus ' was, however, further 
obscured by the circumstance that in the very year (1800) in 
which Ventenat published his plate of a Mauritius grass under 
wmnthm; Desfontainest described the old 
Schoenanthus, which he had collected in Tunis in 1783 or 1784, 
?« a i£vT spcc . i( - s ' 1 v5z - : A - 1'tnigerum (sic). Desfontaines, who 
rpl^?h W ? U kn T ? e A - Sc hoenanthus of his friend 
wiw i ™ ? 0t a 1 lrea ? y then - row the ^ass himself in the 
Jardm dea Plantes-he did so in 180it-must of course have 
SS h ^ q . Uit ? jUStified in ^oing as he did.' The 
f^z^riT^rst- the attention of botanists ' as 
that their efforts have resulted i 
the nomenclature. 
ou?th^ Y T°r GON Sch °ENA*thtjs.-I have already pointed 
out the use, which was made of ' Sch, „;,„,,/;,„< ' ; , , „ .ir-ient Greece 
same us?^ ^ ? *" ° ri " 1 "- f "' ! " •"" - - oita. The 
■ ■ '- i* recorded by the author of the < Tuhfat-el-muminin ' 
graphia i rndiJ, V ? - m - e - n 1 tion8 ' according to the < Pharmaco- 
1 w.l.m.i..,.,s,, ...,,,,„ llKl wa ter prepared from 
683 1688 Rn^t«^- ^JfP^^ wI "> u-av.n^l in Persia from 
IT a .S„! P ? a S d^tinctly of the distillation of oil from Persian 
ther he refers to it only as a 
industry is not said. If the latter, it 
wefindrexisteLinT'p 11 ^^ ™ ry moderate 8cale ' 8uch aS 
to mention S un t ^T^ .?^ ewo ^h,|| who is the first 
male the foll,^ ,' "'' L A ''! V 1 from North- Western India, 
collected bv him «p! £ Q & accompanying a specimen 
ollel t w' PUr in 1840 ' :md now in the 
expressed fX the r L ^ S ° dety : " An esSential 0il 
Punjab." ThTs i s 1 °A manuf *ctured only at Kasur in the 
records from HL 8 an7bdaHb h t e "^ kiml ° f ° U which VigQe 
these words 7 TTttimni^ 6 ^ Attok iin ' 1 '^vulpmdi) with 
medicine." Mr. rtummond l« g 0l1 iS * xtracted and used in 
Mmmtw^nUyof pri ests at 
• Steadel, Syn. PI. | 
II Kdgeworth to Jen, ttoi ^'fe^ (18{ . % p . m 
