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known ; and in assigning the botanical names, I 

 have received much assistance from the Paris edition 

 of Pliny, by M. Desfontaines, from whom I have 

 in few instances found reason to dissent. 



Remarks. 



" The plants which produce ladanum, introduced into Egypt by the 

 Ptolemies." Pliti. 



" Producing a fruit from which an oil or ointment was extracted. Grow- 

 ing in the Thebaid." Plin, 



" Gathered before ripe : that which is left is called Phcenicobalanus, 



and is intoxicating." Plin. 

 " Said to grow in Egypt." Plin. A sort of lichen growing on trees. 



Oil extracted from it. Plin. 13. 1. 



" Bearing leaves like the Zizyphus. Cooked in oil to make the ointment 

 called Cyprus. The best grown about Canopus. Leaves dye the hair." 

 Plin. 



There are four or five other species of Teucrium in Egypt. 



Balsam in Egypt, according to Dioscorides and Strabo, till lately culti- 

 vated at Heliopolis. 



*' Of use for ointments." Plin. It is supposed to be the sheath of the 

 palm flowers. Vide Dioscor. 1. 150. (Arab. Sabdt, conf. Spathe.) 



" Oil of bitter almonds made in Egypt." Plin. 



" Vide supra, Vol. II. p. 176. " Thebaic palms." Plin. 23. 4. 

 " Wine made from the fruit in Egypt." Plin. 



" Fruit growing on the stem itself." Plin. and At/teti. Deipn. ii. p. 5J. 



(Locust tree, or Kharooh, said by Pliny not to grow in Egypt. It is 

 now an Egyptian tree.) 



-j- Pliny appears to mention two trees which produced myrobalanuni, the 

 myrohalanus, and the "pahiia (luae fert myrobalanuni." (Lib. xxiii. 5.) The fruit 

 of this last beinu; without any stone, " nullo intus lijino," or " ossa non hal)cns," 

 was owing to their gathering it w hen young. When full grown, it was called Phce- 

 nico-balanus. 



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