48 The American Naturalist. [January, 
tory. It was noted in the Bon Jardinier for 1824, as also by 
Pirolle in Le Hort. Français, by McIntosh, Burr, and other more 
recent writers. 
The introduction of the Parsnip to Rites was probably by 
the earliest colonists. It is mentioned at Margarita Island by 
Hawkins™ in 1564; in Peru by Acosta! in 1604, as cultivated 
in Virginia in 1609! and 1648,! in Massachusetts in 1629, and 
as common in 1630,’ and were among the Indian foods destroyed 
by Gen. Sullivan’ in Western New York in 1779. 
The parsnip is called in France panais, grand chervia cultive, 
pastenade blanche, patenais, racine blanche ; in Germany, pastinake; 
in Flanders and Holland, pastenaak ; in Holland, pinkster nakel ; 
in Denmark, pastinak; in Italy, pastinaca ; in Spain, chirivia; in 
Portugal, pastinaga ; in Norway, pastinak. 18 
(To be continued.) 
a papal Voy. Hak. Soc. ed., 27. 165 New England’s Annoyances. 1630. Anon, 
History of the Ind., 1604, 261. The first recorded poem in America, 
as True Decl. of Va., 1610, 113. w6 Conover’s Early Hist. of Geneva, 47. 
163 A Perf. Des, of Va., 1640, 4. 167 Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 398. 
164 Higginson. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st 183 Schubeler. Culturpfi., 95. 
ser., i, 118. 
