GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES. 



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SPECIES NATIVE TO THE OLD WORLD. 

 CULTIVATED FOB THE SUBTERRANEAN PARTS. 



Name and duration. 



Radish Raphanus sativus (1). 

 Horse-Radish Cochlearia Armora- 



cia, If. 



Turnip Brassica Rapa (2). 

 Rape Brassica Napus (2). 

 Carrot Daucus Carota (2). 



Parsnip Pastinaca sativa (2). 

 Tuberous Chervil Cha3rophyllum 



bulbosum (2). 

 Skirret Sium Sisarum, "If.. 



Madder Rubia tinctornm, ^ 



Salsify Tragopogon porrif olium (2) 

 Scorzonera Scorzonera hispanica. 



Rampion Campanula Rapunculus 



(2). 



/Vegetable 



Beet Beta vulg. (2), if. \ 



Root. 

 Garlic Allium sativum, If. 



Onion Allium Cepa (2). 

 Welsh Onion Allium nstulosum, %. 

 Shallot Allium ascalonicum, Tf. 

 Rocambole Allium Scorodoprasum 

 Chives Allium Schasnoprasum, %. 



Taro Colocasia ant i quorum, ^f. 



Date. 



B. 

 C. 



A. 

 A. 

 B. 



C. 

 C. 



C. 



B. 



C. (? 

 C. 



C. 

 B. 



B. 

 B. 



A. 

 C. 

 C. 

 C. 



B. 



Origin. 



Temperate Asia. 1 



Eastern temperate Europe. 



Europe, western Siberia (?). 

 Europe, western Siberia (?). 

 Europe, western temperate 



Asia (?). 



Central and southern Europe. 

 Central Europe, Caucasus. 



Altaic Siberia, northern 



Persia. 

 Western temperate Asia, 



south-east of Europe. 

 South-east of E urope, 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. 



1 Dr. Bretschneider writes to me from Pekin, Dec. 22, 1882, that 

 the species is mentioned in the Ryd, 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. 



