Kermes

• “Of certaine red berries called Kermes, which is worth ten shillings the pound, but of these haue beene sold for thirty or forty shillings the pound, may yeerely be gathered a good quantity.”

  The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England

• “One of the most widespread and important communities of this ecoregion is the Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera) community.”

  Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests

• “Frequent burning of maquis results in depauperate vegetation dominated by Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera), Cistus spp. or Sarcopoterium spinosum, all of which regenerate rapidly after fire by sprouting or mass germination.”

  Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin

• “The units of Kermes oak forests and scrub, wild olive-locust tree forests, and small inclusions of cork oak forests on the Iberian Peninsula are also included.”

  Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests

• “Kermes red, and the shellfish and snail purples known collectively (if somewhat indiscriminately) as Tyrian purple were often-cited examples of animal colors.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “The original “kermes” was derived from Kermes vermilio a parasitic insect found on Mediterranean oak trees that was used to create crimson dyes.”

  Alkermes: The Scarlet Elixir

• “Kermes consists of the dried bodies of a small scale insect, _Coccus ilicis_, found principally on the ilex oak, in the South of Europe, and still used there.”

  Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer

• “Kermes, or Kerms, from which is got the "Scarlet of Grain" of the old dyers, is one of the old insect dyes.”

  Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer

• “The "Flemish Kermes" was bought for the Brussels Museum in 1867 for twenty-five thousand dollars, and at the San Donato sale, in 1880, the”

  A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

• “Alex Kermes of White Bear Lake begrudgingly admitted that smaller portions might be an idea to consider.”

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