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316 The American Naturalist. [April, 
large round red, the culgee, the early-wife, the white kidney, the 
bull’s-eye red. In further description he says the Jerusalem is 
long and full of eyes, the culgee is red on one side, the early-wife 
does‘ not blossom, and are of a light-red, and the toadback is 
nearly akin to the large Irish, the skin almost black, and rough 
like a russetting; the kidney is oblong, white with a yellowish 
cast. In 1806 McMahon™” describes but one kind for American 
gardens, but in 1828 Fessenden says there are many varieties, 
and in 1832 Bridgeman says the varieties are very numerous. In 
1848 nearly one hundred sorts were exhibited at the Massachu- 
setts Horticultural Society in Boston. Decaisne and Naudin 
give the number of varieties in France in 1815 as sixty; in 
1855 as four hundred and ninety-three, in 1862 as five hundred 
and twenty-eight. 
We have grown a number of wild varieties of the potato at the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station, including the Sol- 
anum maglia. One sort, which has not as yet been identified by 
us with its specific name, corresponds to the notched class of Vil- 
morin. The maglia corresponds to the round and oblong 
flattened forms; the /amesi to the round form. The colors of 
these wild potatoes are said by some growers to include the 
white, the red, and the variegated. In their habits of growth the 
maglia forms its tubers deep under the ground, the Jamesii very 
much scattered and extending a long distance from the plant. 
The. synonymy of our types can include those described by 
Vilmorin, as follows, but I have not attempted to make it 
complete. 
I. Round yellow. Vilm., 1885. > 
Round as a ball. Ger., 1597, 781; 1633, 927. 
Solanum tuberosum. Blackw. Herb., 1773, pl. 523, b. 
White round. Varlo, Husb., 1785, II., 97. 
II. Long yellow. Vilm., 1885. 
Ovall or egge fashion. Ger., 1597, 781; 1633, 927. 
Oblonga. Bauh. Prod., 1671, 90. Matth., 1598, 757, cum ic. 
Papas peruanorum. Clus. Rar., 1601, 2,79, cum ic. 
2 McMahon. Am. Gard. Cal., 1806. 
