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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. 



Name from Pliny. 



Tamarix, Myrice 

 Tamarisk 



Ferula 



Capparis 



Sari 



ice, I 



-{ 



■{ 



Vitis, Vine 



Cici, Croton, Trixis, 

 or wild Sesamum. 



Raphanus 



Chorticon, a Grass - 

 Sesama - - - 



Urtica, called Cneci- f 

 mum, or Cnidium - \ 



Pyrus Alexandrina, 1 

 Pear of Alexandria J 



Ficus, Fig 



Myrtus, Myrtle 



lib. 



13. 21. 



24-. 9. 



13. 22. 



20. 23. 



13. 23. 



13. 23. 



14. 

 16. 



15. 



15. 

 15. 



15. 



22. 



15. 

 15. 



3.7. 

 18. 

 3. 



15. 7. 

 19. 5. 



7. 

 7. 



7. 

 13. 



15. 



18. 



15. 29.* 

 21. 11. 



Botanical Name. 



Tamarix Gallica. 

 (Arab. Tarfa.) 



Ferula communis? or 

 Bubon tortuosum ? 

 (TheCrythmum Pyre- 

 naicum of Forskal.) 

 (Arab. Shebet e Gebel.) 



Capparis spinosa. 

 (Arab. Lussitf.) 



Cyperus dives ? or C. fas- 



tigiatus ? 



(Arab. Dees.) 

 Vitis vinifera. 



(Arab. Etieb.} 



Ricinus communis. 



(Arab. K/iarwah.) 

 Raphanus olei'fer, or the 



Brassica olei'fer. 



(Arab. Seemga, or the 



Selgam ?) 



Sesamum orientale. 



(Arab. Simsim.) 

 Urtica pilulifera. 



(Arab. Fiss el Keldb.) 

 Pyrus communis ? 



(Arab. Koomittree.) 

 Ficus Carica. 



(Arab. Tin.) 



Myrtus communis. 



( Arab. As, or Mersia.) 



* According to Pliny, " the cherry tree could not be produced in Egypt, by 

 any mean.s." Lib. xv. c. 25. It is not grown there now. 



-|- PHny contrailicts himself, when he says, " in Egypto minime odorati 

 flores, quia nebulosus et roscichis aer est a Nilo flumine," having before stated 

 (lib. V. 9.) that the same river alone, of all others, " nuUas expirat auras ; " 

 and (lib. xvii. 2.) " calidus semper aer est in Egypto : " and the reason he assigns 



