Note I — LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. (continued 5)
Reading edition
This saccharine substance is noticed by Avicenna as Zuccarum alhusar (Lib. ii. Tract. ii. cap. 756, ed. Valgr. Venet. 1564), and also by Matthiolus (Comm. in Lib. ii. Diosc. cap. 75). It is likewise referred to by Endlicher (Enchiridion Botanicum, p. 300), Royle (Illustr. of the Bot. of the Himalayan Mountains, vol. i. p. 275), Merat and De Lens (Dict. de Matière Médicale, l. i. p. 467), &c.