CHAP. XI. PRODUCTIONS OF THE WINTER. 55 



Remarks. 



Die flowers used for dyeing: the seeds giving an oil. Sown middle of 



November; seeds ripen in 5 months. 

 Cultivated for oil. Sown in middle of November; seeds rii)en in 5 



months. 

 Sown middle of November ; plucked in 110 days. 



Yields an oil. Sown middle of November; cut in 110 days. 



Sown middle of December ; cut in 4 months. 



Sown end of November; seeds ripen in April. The Arabic name sig- 

 nifies father (of) sleep. 

 Sown middle of December; cut in 90 days. 



Cut in 60 days. 



Independent of the crop raised by the Shadoof, and that during the in- 

 undation ; sown middle of November; ripens in 5^ months. 



dye its flower produced, but for the oil extracted 

 from its seeds. The ancient, as well as the modern 

 Egyptians, also obtained oil from other plants, as 

 the olive, simsim or sesamum, the cici or castor- 

 berry tree, lettuce, flax, and selgam or coleseed. 

 This last, the Brassica oleifera of Linnaeus, appears 

 to be the Egyptian raplicuuis mentioned by Pliny *, 

 as " celebrated for the abundance of its oil," unless 

 he alludes to the seeuiga, or Raphanus oleifer of 

 Linnaeus, which is now^ only grown in Nubia and 

 the vicinity of the first cataract. The seeds of the 

 simsim also afforded an excellent oil, and they were 



* Plin. xix. .3., and xv. 7. 



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