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sed manu ejus fruticem in culto horto Ioannis Miller diligentissimi Phar- 

 macopaei et civis Francofurtensis conspiciebam." Duhamel, Traite Arb. 

 Fruit. I. 151 (1768) states: "Cette variete se trouve dans la foret de Lions 

 (Lyons) dans plusieurs endroits du Vexin Normand et des environs de 



Rouen. Les confitures d'Epine-vinette sans pcpin qui se font dans cette 

 ville sont fort connues." Young plants produce at first fruits with seeds 

 as already observed by Miller, Duhamel and Loudon, of the old plants 

 the fruits become seedless. Sometimes such a form may be observed of 

 other species, too. 



B. vulgaris f. lutea L'Heritier apud De Candolle, Syst. Nat. n. 6 (1821). 



B. vulgaris flava Heynold, Nomcl. Bot. Hort. 118 (1840), fide II. 55 (1846). 

 B. vulgaris normalis xanthocarpa Zabel in Beissner, Schelle, Zabel, Handb. 

 Laubhb. Ill (1903). 



A typo nonnisi fructibus luteis flavisve differt. 



The fresh fruits are of a beautiful yellow. This form may be connected 

 by intermediate forms with f . alba. 



B. vulgaris f. microcarpa Schrader in Linnaea, xn. 366 (1838). 



B. silvestris Poiteau & Turpin in Duhamel, Traits Arb. Fruit, n. ed. Ill, 15*, 



t. 15 (1835). 

 ? B. vulgaris h. B. Jacquinii Schrader ex Koch in Wochenschr. Ver. Bef. 

 Gartenb. Preuss. iv. 75 (1861). 



A typo ex auctore differt baccis minoribus subgloboso-ellipticis; B. sil- 

 vestris ex auctoribus et icone praecipue fructu parvo obovato distincta esse 

 dicitur, probabiliter ab varietatibus duobus alteris citatis non est diversa. 



I take as the type of this form B. silvestris of Poiteau & Turpin who say: 

 "Celle-ci, plus petite dans toutes ses parties, est la moins connue et la 

 moins cultivee, sans doute a cause de la petitesse de ses fruits. Nous en 

 devons la connaissance a M. Noisette qui, le premier. Pa distinguee dans 

 son ecole." Noisette does not mention this form in Man. Comp. Jard. u. 

 579 (1825). Koch says (Dendr. i. 394 [1869] that he found as B. Jac- 

 quinii in the gardens a form with small roundish-elongate fruits that may 

 be a cross with B. canadensis. In this case it ought to be referred to 

 B. declinata. See also below under f. macrocarpa. 



B. vulgaris f. macrocarpa Jager, Ziergeh. 127 (1865). 



B. vulgaris fructu maximo Hornemann, Hort. Bot. Hafn. I. 348 (1813). 



B. latifolia Poiteau et Turpin in Duhamel, Trait6 Arb. Fruit, n. ed. in. 60 



(1836), non Ruiz et Pavon. 

 ? B. vulgaris v. speciosa, var. serotina et var. macrocarpa Schrader in Linnaea, 



xn. 365 et 370 (1838). 

 B. monspeliensis Hort. ex Lavall£e, Arb. Segr. 12 (1877), pro synon. 



A typo ex auctoribus fructibus majoribus differ!. B. latifolia ex auc- 

 toribus et icone fob is et fructibus majoribus diversa est. Var. serotina ex 

 auctore baccas miniato-coccineas habet et forma a Duhamel picta haud 

 dissimilis esse sed fructus colore differre dicitur. 



The origin of this form is unknown, it is probably nothing but a form 

 with larger fruits once used to make sweets in France. 



