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varieties. Most of the modern garden varieties easily find 

 classification within the types of the annual species, some 

 of them almost exactly corresponding with the wood cuts 

 and descriptions of some very old forms. Many of the 

 varieties from South America and Mexico present, to my 

 mind, sufficiently distinct characters in habit of growth 

 and in the woodiness of the plants to justify their treat- 

 ment as representatives of two species. 



Primarily, the classification of the types is based on the 

 shape of the fruit and the calyx characters, as the most 

 closely related ones can thus be brought together. The 

 erect and pendent fruit, the primary characters of Finger- 

 huth and Dunal, are equally constant, but cannot be em- 

 ployed primarily in this classification, as both characters 

 appear in all but two of the types here given as botanical 

 varieties, and hence can only be used in separating the 

 forms within these types. 



In citing prelinnean authorities* I have included only the 

 descriptions which have been carefully studied and about 

 which I had no doubt as to the type or form intended. 

 The descriptions of a number are so brief and incomplete 

 that they could not be definitely located, hence it seemed 

 wise to omit them entirely. Most of the modern works to 

 which I have had access and which give fairly complete 

 descriptions are referred to unless some doubt exists as to 

 the intention of the author. 



In the selection of names for the garden varieties, the 

 principles for the nomenclature of cultivated plants adopted 

 by the Vegetable Committee of Experiment Station Horti- 

 culturists f and the Madison Botanical Congress J have been 

 followed. In the citation of varietal synonyms reference 

 is made to the earliest and most complete descriptions in 



* For the full titles of works published prior to 1753, reference should 

 be made to the catalogue of the Sturtevant Prelinnean Library. Kept. 

 Mo. Dot. Gard. 7 : 123-209. 1896. 



t Bailey, Annals of Horticulture 106-107. 1889. 



I Proceedings of the Madison Botanical Congress 41. 27 Aug. 1893. 



