ON INTRODUCED ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 67 



corides, is referred by Sibthorp and others to the Sambucus nigra. — 

 This plant is enumerated by Clot-Bey and Figari among those long- 

 known in Egypt. 



The poys of Euryphon (2 De Morb. 28), Theophrastus, Dioscorides, 

 and Pliny, is referred by Sibthorp and others to the Rhus coriaria. — 

 This shrub was seen in Palestine by Pococke and Rabbi Schwarz ; 

 and Delile mentions the medicinal use of the imported berries in 

 Egypt. 



In Egypt, the Origanum JEgyptiacum is called " mardakusj ;" in 

 which word we recognise, the amatakoz of Chasremon, Eubulus, Dio- 

 des, and Athenaeus xiii. 87 and xii. 78. — The 0. iEgyptiacum was 

 seen by Delile in gardens at Cairo ; and the 0. majorana, was seen in 

 Egypt by Hasselquist. 



According to Gesenius and Gliddon (Otia iEgyp., p. 106), no Phoe- 

 nician or Panic inscription hitherto discovered, has proved to be earlier 

 than B. C. 394. — The Samaritan letters, and those on the Maccabee 

 coins, are regarded as directly descended from the Phoenician. 



The name of Hakor, or Acoris, the second king of the Twenty- 

 Ninth Egyptian Dynasty, has been found on repaired portions of the 

 temples at Medinet-Habu and El Kab ; in the quarries at Tura, acr 

 companied by the date of the second year of his reign ; and on a 

 sphinx now in the museum at Paris. King Acoris is mentioned by 

 Theopompus and Diodorus. 



The rozKTAMos of Xenophon (CEcon. i. 13), Dioscorides, and Paulus 

 iEgineta, according to the received opinion and Sibthorp's account of 

 the Greek usage, is one or more species of Hyoscyamus. — The H. albus 

 was seen by Delile, growing spontaneously at Alexandria ; and in the 

 Desert, I repeatedly met with the indigenous H. datura. 



The iris, entering into the composition of the ifinon mti>on of Cephi- 

 sodorus, Didymus, and Athenasus xii. 78 and xv. 39, and stated by 

 Theophrastus to be " the only spice which Europe produces," is ad- 

 mitted to be orris-root (Iris Florentina). — This plant was seen by 

 Hawkins and Sibthorp in Greece ; and the imported roots are doubt- 

 less known in Egypt. 



The nKiMnN of Strattis, Theophrastus, Cato, and Athenaeus ii. 79, 

 according to Sibthorp's and Scarlatus' account of the Greek usage, 

 would seem to be the Reseda phyteuma. — Sibthorp found the leaves of 

 this plant cooked and eaten in Greece. Forskal names the plant, as 



