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* Fruit erect. 

 - Light yellow or straw-color before ripening. 



CELESTIAL.* Plants very erect, about 1-J ft. high, 

 conical in form, rather compact, moderately branchy. 

 Leaves rather lighter green and smaller than in other vari- 

 eties of this group ; petioles slender. Peduncles 1-1J in. 

 long, straight, slender, stout, scarcely enlarging toward the 

 calyx end. Fruit erect, 1^-2^ in. long, 1-1-J- in. diam., 

 ovate, subconical, or subpyramidal, rarely much elongated, 

 smooth, or obscurely wrinkled ; apex acute, rounded, or 

 sometimes obscurely lobed ; base flat, usually not entirely 

 covered by the calyx ; unripe of a greenish yellow or dingy 

 white often with numerous purplish brown spots, later be- 

 coming more yellow or straw color, finally a bright red, 

 2-3 celled ; flesh moderately firm, -^^ in. thick, extremely 

 pungent. Introduced about 1887, having been brought 

 from China some years before. 



The fruit begins setting early, lasting nearly all sum- 

 mer. The lower ones ripening one or two weeks earlier 

 than the others and borne, as most of them are, in large 

 numbers beyond the leaves, the various colors on the same 

 plant present an unusually novel appearance, making it 

 especially desirable as a pot plant. Plate 25, f. 2 and plate 

 26, f. 1. 



*- - Neither light yellow, nor straw-color. 



ETNA.! Plants about 1^ ft. high. Branches numer- 

 ous, quite diffusely spreading. Leaves medium, 



* Thorburn, Cat. 1888. Childs 1 Improved Celestial. Childs, Cat. 

 1894. French, Piment chinois. 



Capsicum leucocarpum Dunal in DC. Prodr. 18 1 : 429. 1862. 

 Capsicum; Americanum, latifolium, fructu oblongo, erecto, candido. 

 Miller, Gard. Diet. 1731 [no. 17]. Fingerh. Monogr. 32. 1832. 



f Eed Etna. Burpee, Cat. 1893. 



Piper oblongum erectum majus pyramidale. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. 



Cur. Post. 97-98. /. 2. 1611. Eaius, Hist. PL 1: 677. 1686. 

 Piper erectum minus pyramidale. Greg, de Reg. in Clus. Cur. Post. 



97-98. /. 5. 1611. Raius, Hist. PL 1 : 677. 1686. 



