550 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



A number of wild varieties of the potato have been grown at the New York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, including the Solatium tnaglia. One sort, which has not 

 as yet been identified with its specific name, corresponds to the notched class of Vihnorin. 

 The maglia corresponds to the round and oblong-flattened forms; the jamesii to the round 

 form. The colors of these wild potatoes are said by some growers to include the white, 

 the red, and the variegated. In their habits of growth, the maglia forms its tubers deep 

 imder the ground, the jamesii very much scattered and extending a long distance from the 

 plant. 



The synonymy of our types can include those described by Vilmorin, as follows: 

 7. Round yellow. Vilm. 1885. 



Round as ahall. Ger. 781. 15971927. 1633. 



Solanum tuberosum. Blackw. Herb. pi. 523. b. 1773- 



White round. Varlo //ms6. 2:97. 1785. 

 //. Long yellow. Vilm. 1885. 



Ovall or egge fashion. Ger. 781. 15971927. 1633. 



Oblonga. Bauh. Prod. go. 1671; Matth. 757. cum ic. 1598. 



Papas peruanorum. Clus. Rar. 2:79. ciun ic. 1601. 

 III. Variegated long yellow. Vilm. 1885. 

 IV. Round red. Vihn. 1885. 



Pugni magnitudine. Matth. 757. 1598. 



Red round. VaAo Husb. 2:gy. 1785. 

 V. Flat pink or red. Vilm. 1885. 

 VI. Smooth long red. Vilm. 1885. 



f Solanum tuberosum. Blackw. Herb. pi. 523. b. 1775, 

 VII. Notched long red. Vilm. 1885. 



? Membri virilis forma. Bauh. Prod. go. 1671. 

 VIII. Violet colored and variegated. 



f Atrorubens. Bauh. Phytopin. 301. 1596. 



Toadback. Varlo. Husb. 2:97. 1785. 



Solanum tuberosum tuberibus nigricaniibus. Blackw. Herb. 7. 586. 



The figures which seem to be referable to the tnaglia species are: 



Batata virginiana sive virginianorum pappus. Ger. 781. 1597. 



Solanum tuberosum esculentum. Matth. Op. 758. 1598; Bauh. Prod 89. 1671. 



Arachtdnatheophrasti forte, Papas peruanorum. Clus. /?ar. 2:79. 1601. 



Papas americanus. Sweertins Florelig. 7. 28. fig. 4. 161 2. 



The potatoes which are now grown in the United States were derived from several 

 sources; from England of late years; from Bogota * in 1847 ; and from Chile *in 1850. 



S. uporo Dun. 



Islands of the Pacific. In Viti, the fruit is prepared by the natives into a sauce which 

 is used at their cannibal feasts. The white settlers occasionally use the fruit to prepare 

 a sauce like the tomato and use the leaves as a potherb.' It is used as a vegetable in the 

 Society Islands and New Zealand.^ 



Couper Farm. Lib. 382. 1847. 



Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 726. 1850; 367. 1851. 



Seemann, B. Fl. Viti. 176. 1865-1873. 



Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpl. 357. 1859. (S. viride) 



