156 The American Naturalist. [February, 
Piper capsicum siligut latiori et rotundiore. Chabr., 1677, 297. 
V. Calyx set in concavity of fruit. 
This character is perhaps produced only by the swollen condi- 
tion of the fruit as produced by selection and culture. As, how- 
ever, it appears constant in our seedsmen’s varieties, it may 
answer our purpose here. z 
(a.) Fruit very much flattened. 
Piper indicum rotundum maximum. Hort. Eyst., 1613, 1713. 
Solanum mordeus, etc., Bonnet Pepper. Pluk. Phyt., 1691, t. 
227, 0 E 
Capsicum tetragonum, Fing., t. 10. 
Piment tomato. Vilm., 1886, 413. 
Red Tomato capsicum or American bonnet. Vilm., 1885, 154. 
(ċ.) Fruit, squarish, angular, very much swollen, large. 
This class includes the Bell, Sweet Mountain, Monstrous, Span- 
ish mammoth, of Vilmorin; the Giant Emperor, Golden Dawn, 
etc., of American seedsmen. The varieties of this class seem re- 
ferable to Capsicum annuum rugulosum, Fing., C. grossum pomi- 
forme, Fing., and C. angulosum, Fing., but I have not as yet suffi- 
ciently studied them. 
This class V. embraces the sweet peppers, and none other. A 
sweet kind is noted by Acosta in 1604, and it is perhaps the rocot 
uchu of Peru, as mentioned by Garcilasso de la Vega.* Sweet 
peppers are also referred to by Piso™ in 1648. 
Occasionally Capsicum baccatum L. is grown, but the species 
is too southern for general use in the north. Its synonymy fol- 
lows: 
Capsicum, Piper indicum brevioribus siliquis. Lob. Obs., 1576, 
178, te, TSOI, k; 417. 
Capsicum brasilianum. Lugd., 1587, 633; Pancov., 1673, n 
297. 
Capsicum minimis siliquis. Ger., 1597, 292; Dod., 1616, 717. 
Piper siliqua parva brasilianum. J. Bauh., 1651, II., 944. 
82 Reosta. Hist.,1 
, 266, 
8 Vega. Ray, oe ‘Hak. Soc. Ed., II., 365. 
% Piso. Bras., , 108. 

