1890] History of Garden Vegetables. 153 
This form seems to have been the first introduced, and presents 
fruits of extreme pungency, and is undoubtedly that described 
as brought to Europe by Columbus. 
It presents varieties with straight and recurved fruit; and the 
fruit when ripe is often much contorted and wrinkled. 
Capsicum longum. D.C. ex., Fing., t., VI. 
Siliguastrum tertium.” Langer Indianischer pfeffer. Fuch., 
1542, 733. 
Siliquastrum minus. Fuch., |. c., 732. 
Indianischer pfeffer. Siliquastrum. Roszlin, 1550, 214. 
Indianischer pfeffer. Trag., 1552, 928. 
Piper indicum. Cam. epit., 1586, 347. 
Capsicum oblongius Dodonei. Lugd., 1587, 632. 
Piper indicum minus recurvis siliquis. Hort. Eyst., 1613, 1713. 
Piper indicum maximum longum. Hort. Eyst., 1613, 1713. 
Capsicum recurvis siliquis. Dod., 1616, 716. 
Piper Calecuticum, sive Capsicum oblongius. J. Bauh., 1650, 
IL; 943. 
Siliquastrum, Ind. pfeffer. Pancov., 1673, n. 296. 
Piper Capsicum. Chabr., 1677, 297. 
Piment de Cayenne. Vilm., 1885, 151. 
Long Red Cayenne. Ferry. 
Mexican Indian, four varieties, one the exact variety of Fuch- 
sius, 1542. 
_ Siliquastrum majus. Fuch., 1542, 732. 
Long Yellow Cayenne. Hend. 
Capsicum longum luteum. Fing., t. VII. 
According to Sloane * the av are additional synonyms 
as taken from non-botanical writers. 
Poivre indic. cornu. Lery, 205. 
Axi longum acre, Martyr. Axi lungo. F. Colon, Vit., 74. 
Axi, or West Indian Pepper. Purchas, 1100, 1106 
White and red long pepper. Carder, ib., 1190. 
Pepper growing on trees in a picked ee running out, Lay- 
field, ib., 1173. 
Pepper growing in long cods. Smith's Obs., 54- 
8l Sloane. Cat., 1696, 39- 


