THE AGE OF SOME EXISTING SPECIES OF PLANTS. 818 
he votive offerings consist of the fruits, ee or stems of 
twenty-nine species of plants. Three palm fruits are common; the 
Medemia Argun Wiirt. of the Nubian Desert, and the Hyphane thebaica 
Mart. of Upper Egypt, pale exactly with the fruits of these plants 
in our own day; also dates of different forms resembling exactly 
the varieties of dried dates found now in poy rere of E 
18 common, and presents, besides some forms famili the 
modern grower, ches which have been lost a go ee a The 
leaves whisk have been obtained entire exactly agree in form with 
those cultivated at the present day, but the under surface is clothed 
with white hairs, a peculiarity Dr. Schweinfurth has not observed 
in any Egyptian vines of our time. A very large quantity of 
thus in the tombs, though he was not aware of its continued eulti- 
Sycomorus L., F. Carica L., see Safsa —_— —o phenicea L., Pinus 
Bis L., Alli : si " ae - A , Phenix dactylifera L., Calamus 
fasciculatus Roxb., Hyphene ncbenee Mart Medenia Argun Wiirt., Cyperus 
ede C. eseulentus L., Andropogon laniger Desf., hloa ‘bipinnata 
, Triticum vulgare L., Hordeum vatiend gtd Parmelia furfuracea Asch,, 
ai plicata 
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