GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES, 



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SPECIES NATIVE TO THE OLD WORLD, 

 Cultivated pok the Subteeranean Pakts, 



Name and duration. 



Eadish — RapliaiiTis sativns (1). 

 Horse-Eadish — Cochlearia Armora- 



cia, If.. 

 Turnip — iiiassica Rapa (2). 

 Bape — Brassica Napus (2). 

 Carrot — Daucus Carota (2). 



Parsnip— Pastinaca sativa (2). 

 Tnberons Chervil — Chaerophyllmn 



bulbosum (2). 

 Skirret — Sium Sisarmn, y. 



Madder — Rnbia tinctornm, T^ 



Salsify — Tragopogon poi-rifolium (2). 

 Scorzonera — Scorzonera hispanica, 



Bampion — Campanxila Rapniictilus 



(2). 



(Vegetable. 

 Root. 

 Garlic — Allium sativum, If. 



Onion — Allium Cepa (2). 

 "Welsh Onion — Allium fistulosum, f. 

 Shallot — Allium ascalonicum, ^. 

 Bocambole — ^Allium Scorodoprasum 

 Chives — ^Allium Schaenoprasum, Tf. 



Taro— Cclocasia antiquornm, |f. 



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 tempei'ate 



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. cejpa (?), 



unknown wild. 

 Temperate Europe. 



Temperate and northern 

 Europe, Siberia, Khams- 

 chatka, North America 

 (Lake Huron). 



India, Malay Archipelago, 

 Polynesia. 



* 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. 



