ON INTRODUCED ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 145 



randus Imperatus, A. D. 1599. — The plant is noticed by C. Bauhin; 

 was seen by Sibthorp in Greece ; by Forskal and Delile, at Cairo and 

 Rosetta ; and I met with it, growing as a weed on the alluvial flats of 

 Upper Egypt. 



According to Sprengel, The Cyperus articulatus was discovered in 

 Mexico by Hernandez, A. D. 1600. — The plant was seen by Forskal 

 and Delile, growing as a weed in the rice grounds of Egypt. 



In "A. D. 1603," the accession of Achmed or Achmet, the sixth 

 Turkish sultan who ruled Egypt, took place. 



According to Pereira, The earliest notice of gamboge (the product of 

 Hebradendron gambogioides) is by Clusius ; who in the last-named 

 year, received some by the way of Amsterdam from China. — Rouyer 

 found gamboge sold in the drug shops at Cairo.* 



According to Sprengel, The North American strawberry (Fragaria 

 Virginiana) is described by Besler, A. D. 1613. — Clot-Bey and Figari 

 speak of the recent introduction and successful cultivation of the straw- 

 berry in Egypt. The species, is probably the North American; which 

 furnishes the most approved garden varieties. 



The Helianthus tuberosus is figured by Fabius Columna, A. D. 1616. 

 — The plant is now cultivated in Hindostan, as appears from Graham; 

 and according to Clot-Bey and Figari, has been recently introduced 

 into Egypt. 



In "A. D. 1617," the accession of Mustafa, the seventh Turkish 

 sultan who ruled Egypt, took place. 



In "A. D. 1623," the accession of Amurath IV. or Murad IV., the 

 eighth Turkish sultan who ruled Egypt, took place. Coins issued at 

 Cairo during his reign, are figured by Marcel, p. 215.f 



According to Sprengel, The Acacia Famesiana is described by Tobias 

 Aldinus, A. D. 1625, and by Hyacinthus Ambrosinius. — The plant is 

 figured by Parkinson ; and was seen by Hasselquist, Forskal, and 

 Delile, in the gardens of Egypt.J 



* The " hyosciamus Virginianus" of Alpinus, is referred by C. Bauhin, Willdenow, 

 and others, to the Oenothera biennis. — This plant has become naturalized in Northern 

 Europe ; but appears to have remained unknown in Greece and Egypt. 



fThe " botrys ambrosiodes Mexicana" of C. Bauhin (Pinax 520), A. D. 1623, is re- 

 ferred by Sprengel to the Chenopodium ambrosioidcs. — This plant was seen by Forskal 

 at Constantinople; and according to Bory de St. Vincent, has become naturalized in 

 Greece ; it appears, however, to have remained unknown in Egypt. 



| According to Cornuti, The Antholyza sEthiopica, of Austral Africa, first flowered 

 at Paris in A. D. 1633. — The plant has become common in greenhouses; but appears to 

 have remained unknown in Egypt. 



