-1 1 6 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



principal sort known during several centuries. The following synonymy is taken from 

 drawings only and hence there can be no mistake in regard to the type: 



Brassicae quartum genus. Fuch. 416. 1542. 



Kappiskraut. Roeszl. 87. 1550. 



Caulis capitulatis. Trag. 717. 1552. 



Brassica capitata. Matth. 247. 1558; Pin. 163. 1561; Cam. Epit. 250. 1586. 



Kol oder Kabiskraut. Pict. 90. 1581. 



Brassica alba sessilis glomerata, aut capitata Lactucae habitu. Lobel Icon, i : 243. 1591. 



Brassica capitata albida. Dalechamp 1:521. 1587; Dod. P^wj/'^ 623. 1616. 



Brassica capuccia. Dur. C. 78. 1617. 



Brassica capitata alba. Bod. 777. 1644; Bauh. J. 1:826. 1651; Chabr. 269. 1677. 



The descriptive synonymy includes the losed cabbage, a great roimd cabbage of Lyte's 

 Dodoens, 1586; the White Cabbage Cole of Gerarde, 1597; the White Cabbage of Ray, 

 1686; the chou pomnte blanc of Toumefort, 1719; the English of Townsend, 1726; {he 

 Common White of Wheeler, 1763; the English or Late, of Stevenson, 1765; the Common 

 Roimd White of Mawe, 1778. 



Egg-Shaped Cabbage. 



Type, the Sugar-loaf. Vilmorin ' remarks of this variety, the Sugar-loaf, that, 

 although a very old variety and well known in every country in Europe, it does not appear 

 to be extensively grown anywhere. It is called chou chicon in France ^ and bundee kobee 

 in India.' It is mentioned by name by Townsend,* 1726; by Wheeler,' 1763; by Steven- 

 son,' 1765; and by Mawe,' 1778. Perhaps the Large-sided cabbage of Worlidge ' and the 

 Long-sided cabbage of Quintyne ' belong to this division. 



Elliptic Cabbage. 

 Type, Early York. This is first mentioned by Stevenson,*" 1765, and he refers to 

 it as a well-known sort. According to Burr, it came originally from Flanders. There 

 are now many varieties of this class. 



Conical Cabbage. 



Type, Filderkraut. This race is described by Lamarck," 1783, and, if there is any 

 constancy between the name and the variety during long periods, is found in the Battersea, 

 named by Townsend in 1726 and by a whole line of succeeding writers. 



It is certainly very singular that but one of these races of cabbage received the 

 notice of the older botanists (excepting the one flat-topped given by Chabraeus, 1677), 



' Vilmorin Veg. Card. no. 1885. 

 ' Vilmorin Veg. Card. 109. 1885. 



Speede Ind. Handb. Card. 112. 1842. 



Townsend Seedsman 26. 1726. 



' Wheeler Bot. Card. Diet. 79. 1765. 



"Stevenson Card. Kal. 26, 119. 1765. 



' Mawe and Abercrombie Univ. Card. Bot. 1778. 



Worlidge, J. Syst. Hort. 202. 1683. 

 Quintyne Com^. Card. 189. 1693. Evelyn Ed. 



"Stevenson Card. Kal. 26. 119, 1765. 

 "Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:22s. 1831. 



