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SPECIES NATIVE TO THE OLD WOELD. 



Cultivated for the Subterranean Parts. 



Name and duration. 



Radish — Eaphanns sativns (1). 

 Horse-Radish — Cochlearia Armora- 



cia, If. 

 Turnip — Brassica Eapa (2) . 

 Rape — Brassica Napus (2). 

 Carrot — Caucus Carota (2). 



Parsnip— Pastinaca sativa (2). 

 Tuberous Chervil — Chaerophyllum 



bulbosum (2). 

 Skirret — Sium Sisarum, If. 



Madder — Eubia tinctornm, If 



Salsify — Tragopogon porrif olium (2) . 

 Scorzonera — Scorzonera hispanica. 



Rampion — Campanula EapunciQus 



(2). 



["Vegetable, 



Beet— Beta vulg. (2), if. \ 



y Boot. 



Garlic — Allium sativum, If. 

 Onion — Allium Cepa (2). 

 Welsh Onion — Allium fistulosum, Tf. 

 Shallot — Allium ascalouicum, If. 

 Rocambole — Allium Seorodopi-asum 

 Chives — Allium Schaenoprasum, If. 



Taro — Colocasia antiquorum, Tf. 



Date. 



B. 

 C. 



A. 

 A. 

 B. 



C. 

 C. 



C. 



B. 



C.(?) 



c. 

 c. 



B. 



B. 

 B. 



A. 



C. 



C. 



C. 



C.(?) 



Origin. 



Temperate Asia.^ 



Eastern temperate Europe. 



Europe, western Siberia (?). 

 Europe, western Siberia (?). 

 Europe, western temperate 



Asia (?). 

 Centraland southern Europe. 

 Central Europe, Caucasus. 



Altaic Siberia, northern 



Persia. 

 Western temperate Asia, 



south-east of Europe, 

 South-east of Europe, Algeria. 

 South-west of Europe, south 



of the Caucasus. 

 Temperate and southern 



Europe. 

 Canaries, Mediterranean 



basin, western temperate 



Asia. 

 A result of cultivation. 

 Desert of the Kirghis, in 



western temperate Asia. 

 Persia, Afghanistan, Belu- 



chistan, Palestine (?). 

 Siberia (from the land of 



the Kirghis to Baikal). 

 Modification of A. cepa (?), 



unknown wild. 

 Temperate Europe. 



Temperate and northern 

 Europe, Siberia, Khams- 

 chatka, North America 

 (Lake Huron). 



India, Malay Archipelago, 

 Polynesia. 



^ Dr. Bretschneider wi-ites to me from Pekin, Dec. 22, 1882, that 

 the species is mentioned in the Eijd, a work of the year 1100 B.C. I do 

 not know if we must suppose the original habitat to be China or 

 western Asia. 



