same opinion. Moreover, the artichoke has not been 

 found out of gardens ; and since the Mediterranean 

 region, the home of all the Gynaixe, has been thoroughly 

 explored, it may safely be asserted that it exists nowhere 

 wild. 



The cardoon, in which we must also include C. 

 liorricla of Sibthorp, is indigenous in Madeira and in the 

 Canary Isles, in the mountains of Marocco near Mogador, 

 in the south and east of the Iberian peninsula, the 

 south of France, of Italy, of Greece, and in the islands 

 of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Cyprus.^ Munby '^ does 

 not aUow G. cardunculus to be wild in Algeria, but 

 he does admit Cynara kumilis of Linnseus, which is 

 considered by a few authors as a variety. 



The cultivated cardoon varies a good deal with regard 

 to the division of the leaves, the number of spines, and 

 the size — diversities which indicate long cultivation. 

 The Komans eat the receptacle which bears the flowers, 

 and the Italians also eat it, under the name of girello. 

 Modern nations cultivate the cardoon for the fleshy part 

 of the leaves, a custom which is not yet introduced into 

 Greece.^ 



The artichoke ofiers fewer varieties, which bears out 

 the opinion that it is a form derived from the cardoon, 

 Targioni,'^ in an excellent article upon this plants 

 relates that the artichoke was brought from Naples ta 

 Florence in 1466, and he proves that ancient writers, 

 even Athen?eus, were not acquainted with the artichoke^ 

 but only with the wild and cultivated cardoons. I must 

 mention, however, as a sign of its antiquity in the north 

 of Africa, that the Berbers have two entirely distinct 

 names for the two plants : addacl for the cardoon, tagci 

 for the artichoke.^ 



^ Webb, Phyt. Canar., iii. sect. 2, p. 384 ; Ball, Spicilegium Fl. Maroc., 

 p. 524 ; Willkomm and Lange, Pr. Fl. Hisp. ; Bertoloni, Fl. ItaL, ix. p. 

 86 ; Boissier, Fl. Orient., iii. p. 357 ; Unger and Kotschj, Inseln Cypern, 

 p. 246. 



2 Munby, CataJ., edit. 2. 



^ Heldreicb, Nutzpfianzen GriecJienlands, p. 27. 



^ Targioni, Cenni Storici, p. 52. 



^ Dictionnaire Francais-Berhere, published by the Government, 1 vol. 

 in 8vo. 



