Anglo-Indian botanists[1901] attribute two Sanskrit names to the modern species, _ûnû_ and _vreehib-heda_, although the modern Hindu and Bengali name _cheena_ and the Telinga name _worga_ are quite different. If the Sanskrit names are genuine, they indicate an ancient cultivation in India. No Hebrew nor Berber name is known,[1902] but there are Arab names, _dokhn_, used in Egypt, and _kosjæjb_ in Arabia.[1903] There are various European names. Besides the Greek and Latin words, there is an ancient Slav name, _proso_,[1904] retained in Russia and Poland, an old German word _hirsi_, and a Lithuanian name _sora_.[1905] The absence of Keltic names is remarkable. It appears that the species was cultivated especially in Eastern Europe, and spread westward towards the end of the Gallic dominion. With regard to its wild existence, Linnæus says[1906] that it inhabits India, and most authors repeat this; but Anglo-Indian botanists[1907] always give it as cultivated. It is not found in Japanese floras. In the north of China de Bunge only saw it cultivated,[1908] and Maximowicz near the Ussuri, on the borders of fields and in places near Chinese dwellings.[1909] Ledebour says[1910] it is nearly wild in Altaic Siberia and Central Russia, and wild south of the Caucasus and in the country of Talysch. He quotes Hohenacker for the last-named locality, who, however, says only “nearly wild.”[1911] In the Crimea, where it furnishes bread for the Tartars, it is found here and there nearly wild,[1912] which is also the case in the south of France, in Italy, and in Austria.[1913] It is not wild in Greece,[1914] and no one has found it in Persia or in Syria. Forskal and Delile indicated it in Egypt, but Ascherson does not admit this;[1915] and Forskal gives it in Arabia.[1916] The species may have become naturalized in these regions, as the result of frequent cultivation from the time of the ancient Egyptians. However, its wild nature is so doubtful elsewhere, that its Egypto-Arabian origin is very probable. +Italian Millet+—_Panicum Italicum_, Linnæus; _Setaria Italica_, Beauvois. The cultivation of this species was very common in the temperate parts of the old world in prehistoric times. Its seeds served as food for man, though now they are chiefly given to birds.