36 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



VI 



Bulb concave on the bottom. 



Cepa rotunda. Bodaeus 786. 1644. 

 Extra Early Red. American Seedsmen. 



VII. 



Bulb oblong. 

 Caepa. Cam. Epit. 324. 1586. 

 Cepae Hispanica ohlonga. Lob. /com. 1:150. 1591. 

 Cepa oblonga. Dod. 687. 1616; Bodaeus 787. 1644. . 

 Piriform. Vilm. 388. 1883. 



VIII. 

 The top onion. 

 In 1587, Dalechamp ' records with great surprise an onion plant which bore small 

 bulbs in the place of seed. 



A. cemuum Roth, wild onion. 



Western New York to Wisconsin and southward. This and A. canadense formed 

 almost the entire source of food for Marquette ^ and his party on their journey from Green 

 Bay to the present site of Chicago in the fall of 1674. 



A. fistulosum Linn, ciboul. two-bladed onion, welsh onion. 



Siberia, introduced into England in 1629.' The Welsh onion acquired its name from 

 the German walsch (foreign).^ It never forms a bulb like the common onion but has 

 long, tapering roots and strong fibers.^ It is grown for its leaves which are used in salads. 

 Mcintosh * says it has a small, flat, brownish-green bulb which ripens early and keeps well 

 and is useful for pickling. It is very hardy and, as Targioiy-Tozzetti ' thinks, is probably 

 the parent species of the onion. It is mentioned by McMahon ' in 1806 as one of the 

 American garden esculents; by Randolph in Virginia before 181 8; and was cataloged for 

 sale by Thorburn in 1828, as at the present time. 



A. neapolitanum Cjt. daffodil garlic. 



Europe and the Orient. According to Heldreich,' it yields roots which are edible. 



A. obliquum Linn. 



Siberia. From early times the plant has been cultivated on the Tobol as a substitute 

 for garlic.'" 



' Dalechamp, J, Hist. Gen. PL (Lugd.) 532. 1587. 



' Case Bo/. /nie* 34. 1880. 



Booth, W. B. Treas. Bot. 1:40. 1870. 



Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Ph. 582. 1879. 



Booth, W. B. Treas. Bot. 1:40. 1870. 



Mcintosh, C. Book Card. 2:41. 1855. 



' Targioni-Tozzetti Journ. Hort. Soc. Land. 9:147. 1855. 

 McMahon, B. Amer. Card. Col. 582. 1806. 

 MueUer, F. Set. Pis. 19. 1880. 

 "Pickering, C Chron. Hist. Pis. 8i:s. 1879. 



