249 DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 
remark, here and there, upon points which strike our attention.* 
We may expect this to be for many years the standard wor 
upon the subject, and to undergo revision in successive editions; 
and we are sure that the excellent author will welcome every 
presentation or discussion which may chance to throw any new 
light upon the sources or the aboriginal cultivation of certain 
plants which the Old World has drawn from the New 
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lants have been derived. The botanist enquires where a given 
cultivated plant grows spontaneously, or what was its wild orig- 
inal; a as to judge, as well as he can, where it is truly 
indigenous or where a reversion from a cultivated to a wild 
* To avoid repetition, it may be mentioned here that, in the following anuota- 
tions, the Relations of the Voyages of Columbus are cited from Navarrete’s Colec- 
Viajes, etc. (Madrid, 1858, and 1827-37); references to PETER Mak 
DA RA’S first three Decades De s Oceanicis et Novo Orbe—written before 
1517—are to the Cologne edition of 1574; references to Ov1Eepo’s Historia Gen 
y i which the first nineteen books, published in 1535, 
included a revised and enlarged edition of his [Relacio sumaria] t. His 
: in 1526—are to the edition published by the Royal Academy 
of History, of Madrid, 1851-55; JEAN pg istoire d'un Voyage faiet en la 
terre du Brasil (in 1557-8) is refer in his revised edition in Latin, a 
Nawigat liam (Geneve, 1586); Fr. Hernanpez, No’ niarum, ete. 
A 
Historia, in the edition of Rome, 1651; Rariorum Stirpiwm Historia by L’ECLUsE 
(Clusius), in the first edition, Antwerp, 1576; his Zzvotica, including his transla- 
ri of Monardes and Acosta, Antwerp, 1605, with his Cure Posteriores (posthum- 
ous), 1611. nh. 
___ Ilva sans dire—yet should explicitly be said—that all the historical and philo- 
logical lore, which gives this article its value, is contributed by my associate. 
: A. G. 
