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A REVISION OF THE GENUS CAPSICUM WITH ESPECIAL 
REFERENCE TO GARDEN VARIETIES. 
BY H. C. IRISH. 
A revision of the genus Capsicum * from an agricultural 
rather than a strictly botanical standpoint, was first sug- 
gested by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant,t who afterward himself 
selected the subject for special study and began collecting 
and cultivating a large number of kinds, at the same time 
recording complete descriptions from living plants. In 
1892 all of his material bearing upon the subject, includ- 
ing many herbarium specimens, drawings, colored plates 
and notes was given to the Missouri Botanical Garden t on 
condition that the genus should receive study with a view 
to the ultimate publication of the results in monographic 
form. All garden varieties which were procurable, together 
with numerous so-called species, have been cultivated at the 
Garden for four years, furnishing valuable material in the 
prosecution of the work. In beginning operations, Mr. F. 
* Tournef. Inst. 152. 1700.— Linn. Gen. Pl. 195. 1742.— Jussieu, 
Gen. Pl. 126. 1789.— Linn. Syst. Pl. 1: 1050. 1797 [ed. Willd. ].— Miller, 
Gard. Dict. 1797 [ed. Martyn].— Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 237. 
1809.— Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 8: 48. 1818.—Fingerh. Monogr. Gen. 
Capsici. 1832.— Nees von Esenb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 62. 1832.— 
Meisner, Pl. Gen. 277. 1836-43.— Don, Hist. Dich. Pl. 4: 444, 1838.— 
Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 665. 1840 [no. 3854 ].— Sendt. in Martius, Fl. Bras. 
10: 142. 1846.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. 18: 411. 1852.— Miquel, Fl. 
Ned. Ind. 2: 657. 1856.—Benth.& Hooker, Gen. Pl. 2: 892. 1876.— 
Nicholson, Dict. Gard. 1884.— Baillon, Hist. Pl. 9: 381. 1888.— Engler 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 4°: 20. 1891.— Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 447. 
1891. 
English, Red Pepper, Guinea Pepper.— French, Piment, Poivre d’ Inde 
ou de Guinea.— German, Spanischer Pfeffer.— Italian, Peperone.— Mexi- 
can, Chillii— Hindostan, Tschili.— Hungarian, Paprika.— Spanish, 
Pimiento.— Portuguese, Pimento, Pimentas. 
+ American Naturalist 25: 550. 1885. 
t Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 15, 1893. 
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