314 The American Naturalist. [April, 
This cabbage varies in a direction parallel to that of the com- 
mon cabbage, or has forms which can be classed with the kales, 
and the heading cabbages of at least two types. 
The peculiarity of the ribs or veins occasionally appears among 
the variables from the seed of the common cabbage, whence 
_ atavism as the result of a cross can be reasonably inferred. As 
to the origin of this form, our opinion, at the present stage of our 
studies, must be largely speculative, but we may reasonably be- 
lieve that it originated from a different form or a different set of 
hybridizations than did the common cabbage. 
_ The names in English are draganza, portugal or sea-kale cab- 
bage’ large-ribbed cabbage} large-ribbed borecole, tranxuda,’ couve 
tronchuda; in France, choux a grosses cotes, chou tronchuda; in 
Spain, col de pezon, col tronchuda; in Portugal, couve tronchuda, 
couve mantiega, couve penca? 
_ The synonymy appears to be: 
Choux a le grosse cote. Le Jard. Solit., 1612. 
Chou blond a grosses cotes. Bosc. Dict., 1789, 4, 43- 
Brassica oleracea aceppala costata. D.C. Syst., 2, 584. 
B. oleracea costata. D.C. Mem., 1821, 12. 
Chou a grosse cotes. Vilm., 1883. 
POT MARIGOLD. Calendula officinalis L. 
The flowers are used in some culinary preparations, and for 
this purpose it is yet grown in some gardens. It has not been 
used to any great extent in modern times, and even,in 1783 
Bryant,’ while noting its common occurrence in gardens, says 
that the flowers were formerly in high esteem, being gathered 
and dried to use in soups and pottage. It was in American gar- 
dens in 1806. The plant was described in nearly all the early 
botanies, and is mentioned by Albertus Magnus in the 13th 
+ century. 
5 Vilmorin. The Veg. Gard., 1885, 128. 
ê Booth. Treas. of Bot. 
T Burr. Field and Gard. Veg., 1863, 273. 
8 Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 1883, 126. 
® Bryant. FI. Diet., 1783, 146. 
