ON INTRODUCED ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 51 



some allied Salsolaceous plants. — The S. baccata was seen by Forskal 

 and Delile, growing as a weed around Cairo and Alexandria. 



The "rtm" of Job xxx. 4, is perhaps the Spartium (already men- 

 tioned) ; but Forskal gives " rsetsem " also, as the current Egyptian 

 name of the Atriplex coriacea. — This plant was seen by Forskal and 

 Delile, growing in the sands around Alexandria. 



The rAHxrm of the Hymn to Ceres 209,* and of Aristophanes, and 

 Theophrastus ix. 16, according to the received opinion and Sibthorp's 

 account of the Greek usage, is the Mentha pulegium. — This plant was 

 seen in Egypt by Alpinus ; and Delile met with it, apparently indigenous 

 at Alexandria. 



The ArAAAiAAS of the Hymn to Ceres, or the "anagallis" of Theo- 

 phrastus, Dioscorides, and Galen, is usually referred to one or more 

 species of Anagallis. — The A. arvensis is enumerated by Delile among 

 the weeds of Egypt. 



According to the statement of Herodotus ii. 142, The Egyptian 

 priests reckoned " three hundred and forty-one kings" prior to Psam- 

 metichus. In the Africano-Manetho Table of chronology, one hundred 

 and thirteen kings are named; and the unnamed kings of the Seventh, 

 Eighth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Dynasties, 

 will make up the desired number (for 113 + 70 + 27 + 16 + 60 + 43 

 + 12 = 341) . This requires the exclusion of the unnamed kings of the 

 Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Nineteenth, and duplicate Seven- 

 teenth Dynasties. 



VI. THE GREEK PERIOD. 



The Africano-Manetho numbers (counting upwards and down- 

 wards) give B.C. 669-7 for the accession of Psamtik, or Psammetichus, 

 the fourth king of the Twenty-Sixth Egyptian Dynasty : an accession 

 marked, by the first introduction into Egypt of a body of Greeks (see 

 Herodotus ii. 154). The name of King Psamtik has been found in 

 the unfinished hall at Karnac; in the quarries at Tura; on the rocks 



* The Hymn to the Delian Apollo by the Blind poet of Chios, perhaps contains no 

 descriptive expressions derived through the sense of sight : hut though quoted and con- 

 sidered ancient by Thucydides, there is a circumstance indicating a later date than the 

 time of Homer. In the Odyssey vi. 165, the date-palm on the Island of Delos is 

 described as young and flourishing; but in the Hymn to the Delian Apollo 18, has 

 become so old that all tradition of its origin is lost. — This date-palm is mentioned by 

 Callimachus (Hymn to Delos) as still standing ; but it had disappeared before the time 

 of Pausanias viii. 48, and Athenaeus. 



