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Joan Quarles, qui dum circumpositione utere- 

 tur, Solana coltiit in terris arenosis laic usque in- 

 cultis imo in uliginosis , postqtiam alii per annos 

 frustra tentaverant. (i) Hujus actionis cominoda 

 vel incommoda inter alios fusius exposuit H u n- 

 ter, qui Solani tuberosi radiculas considerans 

 tanquam ramos sub terra , dicit cas produce- 

 re caules et folia loco tuberum , si terra male ob- 

 tegantur, eas vero steriles evadcre, si nimis obte- 

 gantur, These bearers inqtiit, are in fact bran- 

 ches within ground. They go off from the desccn- 

 ding stalk , in the same manner and distance as 

 w the branches do from the ascending one. Had 

 they appeared upon the surface , they would have 

 brought forth leaves , flowers and apples , but 

 being confined 9 they produce potatoes. " 2 ) 

 Simili modo- apud C a n d o 1 1 i u m vidimus tubera 

 e caulibus subtcrraneis procrescere , ait nempe : 

 Ces rameaux radiciformes qui, dans la pomme 

 w de terre portent les tuberculcs , ne sont quc des 

 branches inftricures." (3) 



5. Quale satum optimum habetur? Est revera 

 quacstio , ad quam varii vario modo responderc 



co- 



(O J. Kops, JUagazij'n van Vttderl. Landlow , D. V. 

 pag. 444. 



() Gcorg., Ess. Vol. I. png. 141. 



(3) Organogr. vtgtt. , Tom. I. pag, 255, etiam Cf. Ounal, 

 Mlmoiro tur Us Solatium, pag. 22. 



