CHAP. XI. TREES FROM THE PAINTINGS. 77 



Remarks. 



" With a bulbous root." Pli7i. 

 " A triangular rush." Plin. 



Gods crowned with it; a custom particularly observed by Ptolemy, 

 King of Egypt." PU71. 

 " Grown in gardens in Egypt, for making chaplets." Plin. 

 " Coming from the garden lotos, from whose seed, like millet, the 

 Egyptian bakers make bread." Plin. 



("Rhus: leaves like myrtle, used for dressing skins." Though Pliny 

 does not mention it as an Egyptian plant, it is indigenous in the de- 

 sert, and the leaves and wood are used by the Arabs for tanning.) 



" Mostly produced in Egypt." Plin. 



'' About Elephantina." Pliti. 



" Only in Egypt, during the inundation of the Nile." Plin. 



" Homer attributes the glory of herbs to Egypt. He mentions many 

 given to Helen by the wife of the Egyptian King, particularly the 

 Nepenthes, which caused oblivion of sorrow." Plin. 



" The best at Taposiris in Egypt : a bunch of it carried at the fete of Isis." 

 Plin. 



" The Egyptians believe, that if, on the 27th day of Thiatis (Thoth), 

 which answers nearly to our August, anj^ one anoints himself with its 

 juice before he speaks in the morning, he will be free from weak- 

 ness of the eyes all that year." Plin. 



and the fruit, seeds, or leaves of the nebk*, vine, 

 fig, olive, Mokhayt\, Kliarooh or locust tree t, 

 })alma Christi or cici^, Sonf or acanthus ||, bay, 

 and Egleeg or balanites 5[, have been found in the 



* Rhamnus Nabeca, Forsk. 

 -f- Cordia Myxa, Linn. 



j Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn. Pliny calls it Ceraunia siliqua, and says 

 it did not grow in Egypt, xiii. 8. 



§ Ricinus coram unis, Linn, the castorbcrry tree. 



II Mimosa or Acacia Niloticu. 



If Balanites ^Egyptiaca, supposed to be the Pcrsea. Vide p. 61. 



