333 ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 



near Mount Sinai,^ in the ruins of Persepolis,^ near 

 the Caspian Sea,^ between Lenkoran and Baku, in 

 the desert of Chirvan and Awliasia, to the south of the 

 Caucasus,^ and in Turcoinania.^ No author mentions it 

 in Greece, E;j:ypt, or to the east of Persia. Willdenow ^ 

 indicates it at Samara, in tlie south-east of Russia; but 

 more recent authors do not confirm this. Its modern 

 ai-ea is, therefore, from the Red Sea to the Caucasus an I 

 tlie Caspian Sea. 



Hence this barley should be one of the forms 

 cultivated by Semitic and Turanian peoples. Yet it 

 has not been found in Egyptian monuments. It seems 

 that the Aryans must have known it^ but I find no proof 

 in vernacular names or in history. 



Theophrastus '^ speaks of the two-rowed IjarL -y. The 

 lake-dwellers of Eastern Switzerland cultivated it before 

 they possessed metals,^ but the six-rowed barley was 

 more common among them. 



The variety in which the grain is bare at maturity 

 {R. disticJion nudum, Linnteus), which in France has all 

 sorts of absurd names, orge a cafe, orge dio Ferou (cotfee 

 barley, Peruvian barley), has never been found wild. 



The fan-shaped barley (Hordeum Zeocriton, Linn?eus) 

 seems to me to be a cultivated form of the two-rowed 

 barley. It is not known in a wild state, nor has it been 

 found in Egyptian monuments, nor the lake-dwellings of 

 Switzerland, Savoy, and Italy. 



Common Barley Ilordev/ni vidgare, Linnreus. 



The common barley with four rows of grain is 

 mentioned by Theophrastus,^ but it seems to have been 



Figari and de Notnris, Agrosfologim JEjypt. Fragm., p. 18. 



- A very starved plant gathered by Kotscliy, No. 290, of -which 1 

 possess a specimen. Boissier terms it H. disiichon, varicias. 



C. A. Meyer, Verzeichniss, p. 26, from specimens seen also by 

 Ledobour, Fl. Boss., iv. p. 327. 



Ledebour, ihid. 



5 Kegel, Di'scr. Plant., Nov., 18S1, fasc. 8, p. 37. 



Willdenow, S/ Plant., i. p. 473. 



' Theophrastus, Ri^t. Plant., lib. viii. cap. 4. 



Heer, Pjlanzen der Pfahlbauteii, p. 13 ; iressicommcr, Flora Bot. 

 Zeitvnc,, lSti9i p. 320. 



Theophrastus, Hist., lib. viii. cap. 4. 



