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Bermuda. American Seedsmen. 
Large Flat Madeira. American Seedsmen. 
Wethersfield Large Red. American Seedsmen. 
IV. Bulb rounded below, flattened above. 
De cepis. Pictorius, 1581, 82. 
Philadelphia Yellow Dutch or Strasburg. American Seedsmen. 
V. Bulb spherical, or nearly so. 
Cepa.: Tragus, 1552, 737. Lauremb., 1632, 26. 
Cepe. Lob. Obs., 1576, 73; ic. 1591, L., 150. 
Cepe alba. Ger., 1597, 134. 
Cepa capitata. Matth., 1598, 419. 
Jaune de Danvers. Vilm., 1883, 380. 
Danvers. American Seedsmen. 
VI. Bulb dishing on the bottom. 
Cepa rotunda, Bodzus, 1644, 786. 
Extra Early Red. American Seedsmen. 
VII. Bulb oblong. 
Cepa. Cam. Epit., 1586, 324. 
Cepea Hispanica oblonga. Lob. ic., 1591, I., 150. 
Cepa oblonga. Dod., 1616, 687 ; Bodzus, 1644, 787. 
Piriform. Nilm., 1883, 388. 
VIII. The top onion. 
In 1557 Dalechamp™ records with great surprise an onion 
plant which bore in the place of seed, small bulbs. 
The onion was named by Chaucer,” in England, about 1340. 
In Mexico onyons are mentioned by Peter Martyr” before 1557, 
in Peru before 1604,” in New England about 1629,” in Virginia 
in 1648,” and were among the Indian foods destroyed by General 
Sullivan ® in western New York in 1779. In 1806 McMahon® 
records eight varieties in American gardens. 
Rasa 1587, 5 1 Wood. New Eng. Prosp., Ist ed., II. 
peng 636. 80 A Perf. Desc. of Va., 1649, 4. 
aan Hist. of Trav. I SL ver. Early Hist. of Geneva, 47. 
7 Acosta. Hist. of the Ind., 1604, 261. 82 McMahon. Am. Gard. Cal., 1806, 

