210 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



Cucutnis vulgaris, viridis, and albis. Bauh. J. 2:246. 1651. 

 Long Green Prickly. Mill. Diet. 1807. 

 Early Frame. Thorh. Cat. 1828 and 1886. 



III. 



The third form is the smooth and medium-long cucimibers, which, while they have 

 a diversity of size, yet have a common shape and smoothness. Such are: 



f Cucumer sativus. Pin. 192. 1561. 



Concombre. Toum. t. 32. 17 19. 



f Large Smooth Green Roman. Mawe, itj8; Mill. Diet. 1807. 



Long Smooth Green Turkey. Mawe 1778; Mill. Diet. 1807. 



Long Green Turkey. Thorb. Cat. 1828. 



Turkey Long Green or Long Green. Landreth. 1885. 



Greek, or Athenian. Vilm. 1885. 



IV. 



The fourth form includes those known as English, which are distinct in their excessive 

 length, smoothness and freedom from seeds, although in a botanical classification they 

 would be united with the preceding, from which, doubtless, they have originated. The 

 synonymy for these would scarcely be justified had it not been observed that the tendency 

 of the fruit is to curve under conditions of ordinary culture: 



Cucumis longus. Cam. Epit. 295. 1586. 



Cucumis longus eidem. Baugh. J. 2:248. 1651. 



Green Turkey Cucumber. Bryant 267. 1783. 



Long Green English varieties. Vilm. 163. 1883. 



V. 



The Bonneuil Large White Cucumber, grown largely about Paris for the use of per- 

 fumes, is quite distinct from all other varieties, the fruit being ovoid, perceptibly flattened 

 from end to end in three or four places, thus producing an angular appearance. We may 

 suspect that Gerarde figured this type in his cuciunber, which came from Spain into 

 Germany, as his figure bears a striking resemblance in the form of the fruit and in the leaf: 



Cucumis ex Hispanico semine natus. Ger. 764. 1597. 



Cucumis sativus major. Bauh. Pw. 310. 1623. (excl. Fuch.) 



Bonneuil Large White. Vilm. 222. 1885. 



White Dutch. A. Blanc. No. 6133. 



VI. 



Another type of cuciombers is made up of those which have lately appeared tmder 

 the name of Russian. Nothing is known of their history. They are very distinct and 

 resemble a melon more than a cucumber, at least in external appearance: 



1. The Early Russian, small, oval and smooth. 



2. The Russian Gherkin, obovate and ribbed like a melon. 



3. The Russian Netted, oval and densely covered with a fine net-work. 



The appearance of new types indicates that we have by no means exhausted the 

 possibilities of this species. The Turlde cucumber of Gerarde is not now to be recognized 

 under culture; ndr are the Cucumer minor pyriformis of Gerarde and of J. Bauhin and 

 the Cucumis pyriformis of C. Bauhin, Phytopinax, 1596. 



