812 THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 
air. Ehrenberg, who accompanied Von Minutoli in his Kgyptian 
expedition, determined the seeds which he had collected, but as he 
himself doubted the antiquity of some of the materials on which 
he reported, the scientific value of his enumeration is destroyed. 
assalacqua, in 3, made considerable collections from tombs at 
one of the latest labours of Miaccandes Braun ae an examination 
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ca srefal editorship of ao yinee and Ma In this, twenty-four 
species were determined, some from singlet erfect materials, and 
necessarily with sina hesitation as to the accuracy of their 
determination 
remains were included within the mummy-wrappi ings, a being 
weinfurth ha Racial s no less shan fifty- 
ima Spathae: * some a which are represented by the fruits employed 
* List of the species of ancient Egyptian wel determined by Dr. Schwein- 
furth. I am indebted to Dr. Schweinfurth for some species in this list, the 
" overy of go a has not yet pebiahes: — "Delphinium orientale Gay, 
‘ _—_ Leeba, DC =) Nymphea cerulea Sav., Nymphaea Lotus Hook., io aed 
; - var. All H? 
spinosa Forsk., Tamarix nilotica Ehrenb., Alcea —_ L., Linwm humile x 
pati yptiaca Del., Vitis vinifera L., Moringa aptera Gertn., Medicago 
: ,G tiie 
aa » Picris coronopifolia » Mimusops Schimperi 
Olea, europea L., Weathe 9 piperita L., Rumex deatalar L., ago 
