128 DeCandolles Origin of Cultivated Plants. 
Art. XVIL.— Review of DeCandolle's Origin of Ciebiiel Plants ; 
with Annotations upon certain American Species; by ASA 
Gray and J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL. 
‘In concluding, after some Bngayertes delay, our observa- 
tions upon DeCandolle’s L' Origine des Plantes Oultivées, it may 
not be improper to state that, as we learn, the work was 
planned upon a somewhat larger seale, which was reduced to 
suit the requirements of the publis er. This accounts for the 
omission of certain articles which would otherwise have found 
place 
Parr III. 
_ _Lycopersicum esculentum, Tomato.—We have only to note an 
oversight in respect oF » Mexican cultivation of the Mala 
Peruviana, as it was named by some botanists of the 16th 
century. DeCandolle petete to Humboldt’s statement that the 
cultivation of this esculent was ancient in Mexico, but adds 
that there is no peethir of it in the earliest work on the plants 
of ere hase : Hernandez, Historia. But Hernandez 
(ed. 1651, p. 295, ) ) ‘actually has a chapter ‘De Zomaii, seu 
Sathoes acinosa vel Solano, and describes several sorts under their 
Mexican na 
Persea arabia, Alligator Pear of the English, ?Avocat of 
the French; a singular corruption of a native name, as De 
Candolle remarks, which had no more to do with an alligator 
_ huiil, corrupted by the Spaniards into Aguacate, Avogade, etc. 
Champlain, who saw it in Mexico in 1599 or 1600, calls the 
uk find only one writer in the 16th century who Fiebly the indi- 
cating a Peruvian origin—namely, Anguillara, whose isaties re De Simplicibus” 
was first printed, in Italian, at Venice, 1661. On his authority the name “ Poma 
viana” is in d, i nymy, by C. Bauhin, in his an on 
atthioli, 1598 (p. en stettensis (attributed to Besler), pub- 
“ Bystettensis is the pel authority cited for “‘ Mala Peruviana” in the work to which 
M. DeCandolle refers—the Historia Stirpiwm, steshiied to J. Bauhin, but pub- 
— long — = death (in 1551), with large addi: ns by his son-in-law Cherler, 
by Chabrae a Graffenreid. Guillandinus, af Padua, in a treatise “De 
, pubyi ” 1572, 1 ed the “ gas natle mecracheerariorieng as a species of Pomum 
- Amoris or Solan: ev ebabiors and, earlier, Matthioli had senceibed it (Comment. 
& in Dioscor., ed. 1559, p. 537) a as a “kind. of Mala insana” [Solanum melongena], 
ss which-was “begin ning to be imported” into Italy, and which was “ popularly 
called Pomi d’oro, that is, Mala aurea,’ 
: J have Se the Tomato with another of the —— 
es me ng ntroduced at abo me period—the Thorn Eee Ue 
eee Soe which Gulandinas rete named “ Mala ee es "French ie 
