254 DeCandoile’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 
the Christians came to these parts, and are natives of this land, 
an e not brought fromm Spain,” names “ verdolagas or 
pertulaca” and “bledos or bletum” (Blitum). 
In his description of ‘perebenegue,” written in 1525, he 
says, that plant grew, in great abundance, in Saint Domingo 
and in many places on the continent, in the woods and fields; 
even “purslane (verdolagas) is not more abundant here” (:., 
lib. xi, ¢. 5, p. 878. 
Jean de Lery, in Brazil in 1557, was as much impressed by 
the novelty of the flora, as Columbus had been, in the West 
Indies. “I declare,” he wrote (Hist. Navig. Brasil., 168), “8 
far as it was permitted me to discover in wanderings through 
the woods and fields, that there are no trees or plants, or any 
fruits, that are not unlike ours, these three excepted, portulaea, 
ocymum and filex” (in the original French edition, 1578, p. 217, 
‘ pourpter, basilic, et fougiére.”). 
Capt. John Smith, in Virginia in 1606, found “ many herbes 
in the spring, commonly dispersed throughout the woods, good 
for broths and sallets, as Violets, Purs/ain, Sorrell, ete.; be- 
sides many we used whose names we know not” (Smith’s (en. 
History, 1632, p. 26; and repeated by Strachey, Zravaile mo 
Virginia, p. 120). Smith's purslain was probably Sedum ternatum. 
Sagard-Theodat, in the relation of his Grand Voyage du Pays 
des Hurons, in 1624 (p. 831), says that the Hurons make little 
use of herbs, ‘‘although the pourpier or pourcelaine is very com: 
mon there, and grows spontaneously in their fields of corn and 
pumpkins.” 3 
W. Wood, who was in New England from 1629 to 1638, 
names “Purselane” among plants growing “in the woods, with- 
out either the art or the help of man” (N. Z. Prospect, pt. 1, ¢ 
5). We doubt its growing literally in the woods, as unlike 118 
England, growing among the Indian corn; ‘the savages 
making no more account of it than if it. were a noxious weed 
( Voyages, ed. 1632, p. 80). ‘ 
Humulus Lupulus, Hops.—Although the matter has nothing 
to do with the introduction of hops into cultivation, it is notice 
able that DeCandolle assigns the home of the plant only 0 
Europe and Western Asia. It is undoubtedly indigenous 10 
orth America also, and is mentioned as such in the American 
works. In Gray’s Manual, besides the printing of the name 0 
the type appropriate to indigenous species, the plant is eX 
pressly stated to be “clearly indigenous.” But, through some 
ac oe in the Prodromus (xvi, 29), it is stated, in connection 
with this very reference, that the plant was introduced. 
