7IO CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"pompions" were seen by Columbus in 1493 on Guadalupe (F. Columb. 47) : " melones "^ too large 

 for a man to lift, some of them internally yellow, by Oviedo nat. hyst. 80 in the West Indies ; and a 

 furrowed variety resembling a huge muskmelon, by myself in Peru : C. maxima was observed by 

 De Soto in 1542 in Florida ; and is known to have been cultivated by the North American tribes as 

 far as the St. Lawrence. By European colonists, was carried Westward across the Pacific to the 

 Philippines, called there in Tagalo " calabasang bilog," and termed " c. sulcata " by Blanco ; to the 

 neighbouring islands (Rumph. v. pi. 145) ; to Anam and China, widely cultivated (Lour.) ; to Burmah, 

 called there " shwae-pha-yung " (Mason); to Hindustan, observed by Rheede viii. pi. 2 in Malabar, by 

 Roxburgh, Wight, Graham, and Drury, cultivated throughout. Transported to Europe, is termed 

 "pepo rotundus major" hy Dodoens 666, "pepo maximus indicus compressus " by Lobel pi. 641 ; is 

 described also by Matthioli pi., and Bauhin hist. ii. 219; was observed by Chaubard in Greece; by 

 Forskal, and Delile, in Egypt, called there "kara estombouli " gourd of Constantinople ; is known to 

 be cultivated in Abyssinia under an Arabic name " doubba " (A. Rich., and A. Dec.) ; was observed 

 by Grant in central Africa, from " 5 S. to 2° N." on the Nile: and later perhaps than the visit of 

 Forster, was carried to the islands of the Pacific ; observed by myself, the Peruvian variety on Taheiti, 

 and the North American on the Feejeean Islands and New Zealand. 



Chenopodium ambrosioides of our Southern and Gulf States. An herb called in Mexican " epazolt " 

 (Span, transl. Linn., and Blanco), and cultivated from early times : — a kind of " atriplex " four or five 

 feet high was found by Hariot in 1 584 cultivated on the Roanoke, and the only salt used by the natives 

 procured from its stem, its seeds besides making good pottage, and leaves cooked by his own party 

 for greens (De Bry i ) : C. ambrosioides was observed by Nuttall on the Arkansas ; but farther East 

 has the aspect of an introduced weed, occurring in waste places and around dwellings in our Southern 

 and Middle States as far as Philadelphia. By European colonists, was carried Westward across the 

 Pacific to the Philippines, its Mexican name becoming "apasotis " in Tagalo, Bisaya. and Pampango, 

 and the plant cooked and eaten by the natives and employed medicinally ; to Japan, observed by 

 Thunberg around Nagasaki, but no native name given ; to Hindustan, where it has acquired native 

 names (Pidd.). Transported to Europe "in 1619" from Mexican seed, is termed " botrys ambro- 

 sioides mexicana " by C. Bauhin pin. 138 ; was observed by Barrelier pi. 1 1S5. and Brotero, seemingly 

 wild in Portugal ; by Ray hist. i. 96, Bonamy 26, Koch, and others, naturalized from Algeria to middle 

 Europe (A. Dec.) ; was called at Verona in 1745 "the" allemand," because drank in infusion by the 

 Germans (Seguier fl. i. 90) ; was observed by Chaubard around Mistra in the Peloponnesus ; by 

 Forskal, around Constantinople : by European colonists also was carried to the Azores and Canaries ; 

 to St. Helena by Burchell (A. Dec); to Western Equatorial and Austral Africa (Benth. fl. nigr., and 

 Moq ) ; and to the Mauritius Islands, where it has become naturalized (Boj.). , " C. anthelminticum" 

 or American wormseed, regarded by A. Gray as not distinct, is known to occur also in waste places 

 from Florida to Philadelphia and Kentucky (Chapm., Pursh, and Short), and according to Elliot is 

 indigenous. 



" 1 161 A. D. = 1st year of the 'ta-ting' of Chi-tsoung of the Kin,'' ruler of Northern China. 



"The same year (= 557 Hej.," Pall. trav. i. 192), date of an .Irmcnian inscription in the ceme- 

 tery among the ruins of Bolgari on the Lower Volga, the ancient capital of Bulgaria. 



" 1 162, May 26th " (Nicol.), election, in a synod at Westminster, of Thomas-a-Becket as archbishop 

 of Canterbury. ' 



" The same year" (Blair), Milan destroyed by the German emperor Fredericus Barbarossa. The 

 churches only left standing. 



" 1 163 A. D. = 'loung-king,' 1st year of Hiao-tsoung, of the Soung " or Twenty-first dynasty — 

 (Chinese chron. table). 



"fields and waste places, Florida and Northward ; " and known to occur in "waste places " as far as 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio (A. Gray). By European colonists was carried Westward across the Pacific 

 to the Philippines, where it has become abundant throughout, and is called in Tagalo " quilites " 

 (an American word according to Blanco), in Bisaya " calites " or " tilites " or " orayi " or " harum " or 

 " rayang bayang," in Pampango " ayantoto," in Ylocano " cuanton ; " to the neighbouring islands 

 (Rumph. v. pi. 83, and A. Dec.) ; to Burmah, called there "hen-ka-nway," a "common weed in some 

 parts," eaten as "a potherb" by the natives (Mason v. 472) ; to Hindustan, devoid of a Sanscrit name 

 (Roxb., and Pidd ), but called in Bengalee " kanta-mari," in Tamil " mulluk-kirai," in Malabar " mul- 

 lan-chira," in Telinga " mundla-tota-kura" or " nalla-doggali," and known to occur from Bengal to 

 Malabar (Drur.), observed by Graham as far as Bombay, "a common weed among rubbish during 

 the rainy season," by Moon, on Ceylon. Transported to Europe, is described by Hermann hort. 

 Lu g d - 33 (Spreng.) : by European colonists also, was carried to Western Equatorial Africa (Webb, 

 and Benth. fl. nigr. 173 to 492) ; to the Mauritius Islands, according to Bojer only naturalized; and 

 by French colonists, is called "brede de Malabar" (A. Dec). 



