CHAP. XI. PLANTS FR031 PLINY. 71 



Remarks. 



" Used by many nations for arrows, so that half the world has been 

 conquered by reeds." Plin. 



Vide supra, p. 51. note. 



Vide sitpra, Vol. II. p. 397. " The Egyptians make a medicinal decoc- 

 tion of olyra for children, which they call Athara." Plin. xxii. 25. 



" With a prickly stalk." Plin. 



" Two kinds of lentils in Egypt." Plin. 



" Four kinds, the Tanitic, Pelusiac, Butic, and Tentyritic." Plin. 



"■ Called Gossipion, or Xylon: the cloths made from it hence named 



Xylina." Plin. 

 " About the size of a squill ;" " with a bulbous root." Plin. 



" Like the Aron, but smaller ; the root being the size of an olive." Plin. 



" Both ranked by the Egyptians among gods, in taking an oath." Plin, 



" The best kind is in Egypt." Plin. 



Pliny speaks of two, one whiter than the other, used for the same pur- 

 pose, and put upon cakes of bread at Alexandria. The white and 

 black Cuminum are called by the Arabs Kanwwon abiad and 

 Kammoon aswed : the latter is the Nigella sativa. Vide supra, VoL II. 

 p. 386. 



Heracleotic. 



powerful scent, particularly the Arteraisias, the Santolina, and the Nod/, a kind 

 of Inula. 



* Lib. xvi. 40., Pliny says, " cedar wood was used by the Kings of EgyjJt and 

 Syria for want of fir (abies) :" but he does not state that it grew in Egypt. 



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