32 The American Naturalist. [January, 
morin among garden esculents."" It was described in 1794, and 
was carried to France in 1836," but its tubers were not found 
palatable to European taste.™* The tubers are of good size, and 
are marked with purple upon a yellowish ground. 
The tuberous-rooted nasturtium is called in France capucine 
tubereuse ; in Germany, Peruanische knollenkresse ; in Flanders, 
knoll-kapucten; in Spain, capuchina tuberculosa;” in Peru, 
mayna,” massua; in Bolivia, zsano," ysano ;° in Mexico, ysano, 
or taiacha,”* 
NEW ZEALAND SPINAGE. Tetragonia expansa, Ait. 
This plant was first found by Sir Joseph Banks, in 1770, at 
Queen Charlotte’s Sound, New Zealand, and its merits discovered 
to the sailors of Captain Cook’s expedition round the world. It 
reached Kew gardensin 1772." It also occurs in Australia, both 
on the coast and in the desert interior, in New Caledonia, China, 
Japan, and Chili... Don” says three varieties are found in Chili, 
one with smooth leaves, one with leaves hoary beneath, and a 
third small and glabrous. It was cultivated as a spinage plant in 
England in 1821 or earlier.” It was in use in France in 1824 or 
earlier? In the United States its seed was distributed among 
members of the New York Horticultural Society in 1827, and in 
1828 it appeared in our seed catalogues.” St.@Hilaire” records 
its use as a spinage in South Brazil, and Bojer” in the 
Mauritius. 
The New Zealand spinage is called in France tetragone, cornue, 
tetragone etalee, epinard de la nouvelle-zelande; in Germany, 
neuseelandischer spinat; in Flanders, vierhouk, vierkant-vrugt ; in 
Denmark, myseelandsk spinat; in Italy, tetragona ;* inthe Maur- 
itius, tetragone ;” in Japan, tsuri na, i.e., creeping cabbage.” 
13 Heuze. Les Pl. Alim., II., 546. 19 Pirolle. L'Hort. Fran., 1824-5, 256. 
14 Bon Jard., 1882, 435. 20 Thorburn’s Cat., 1828, 88. 
Kunth. Syn., II., 256. 71 St. Hilaire. FI. Br. Merid., 1824. 
16 Jour. Hort. Soc., IX., 59. 22 Bojer. Hort. Maur., 1837, 155. 
59 
1' Don. Gard. and Bot. Dict., ILI., 152. %% Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 1883, 552. 
18 Mueller. Sel. Pl., 1876, 237. 4 Thunberg. Japan, 1784, 208 
