GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES. 



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SPECIES NATIVE TO THE OLD WORLD. 



CULTITATED POK THK SUBTEESANEAN PaUTS. 



Name and duration. 



Radish — Raphanns sativns (1). 

 Horse-Eadish^Coohleaiia Armora- 



cia, If. 

 Turnip — Brassioa Rapa (2). 

 Rape — Brassica Napns (2). 

 Carrot — Daucus Carota (2). 



Parsnip — Pastinaoa sativa (2). 

 Tuberous Chervil — Chserophyllmn 



bnlbOBum (2). 

 Skirret — Sium Sisamm, ^T. 



Madder — Rubia tinotornm, y 



Salsify — Tragopogon porrif olium (2) 

 Scorzonera — Scorzonera hispanioa. 



Bampion — Campanula Rapunculus 

 (2). 



(Vegetable. 

 Root. 

 Garlic — ^Allium sativum, 5^. 



Onion — ^Allium Cepa (2) . 

 Welsh Onion — Allium fistulosum, If. 

 Shallot — ^Allium ascalonioum, ^. 

 Eocamhole — Allium Scorodoprasum 

 Chives — ^Allium Schaenoprasnm, Tf. 



Tare — Colocasia antiquorum, f. 



Date. 



B. 

 C. 



A. 

 A. 

 B. 



C. 

 0. 



C. 



B. 



C.(?) 

 C. 



0. 



B. 



B. 

 B. 



A. 



0. 



C. 



0. 



C.(?) 



Origin. 



Temperate Asia.' 



Eastern temperate Europe. 



Europe, western Siberia (?) . 

 Europe, western Siberia {?). 

 Europe, western temperalo 



Asia (?). 

 Central and southern Europe. 

 Central Europe, Caucasus. 



Altaic Siberia, northern 



Persia. 

 Western temperate Asia, 



south-east of Europe. 

 South-east of Europe, Algeria . 

 South-west of Europe, south 



of the Caucasus. 

 Temperate and southern 



Europe. 

 Canaries, Mediterranean 



basin, western temperate 



Asia. 

 A result of cultivation. 

 Desert of the Kirghis, in 



western temperate Asia. 

 Persia, Afghanistan, Belu- 



chistan, Palestine (?). 

 Siberia (from the land of 



the Kirghis to Baikal) . 

 Modification of A. cepa (?), 



unknown wild. 

 Temperate Europe. 



Temperate and northern 

 Europe, Siberia, Khams- 

 chatka. North America 

 (Lake Huron). 



India, Malay Archipelago, 

 Polynesia. 



• Dr. Bretschneider writes to me from Pekin, Deo. 22, 1882, that 

 the species is mentioned in the Byd, a work of the year 1100 B.C. I do 

 not know if we must suppose the original habitat to be China or 

 western Asia. 



