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in northwest India a variety with erect stalks.” The use of the 
purslane as a vegetable is noted in the Greek writers under the 
name andrachne, and by the Romans under this name and portu- 
Jaca. In the 13th century: Albertus Magnus * does not mention 
culture in gardens, and apparently refers to the wild form, “ the 
stems extending over the soil.” In 1536 Ruellius® describes 
the erect, green-leaved, cultivated form, as well as the wild pro- 
cumbent form, and in this he is followed by many of the succeeding 
botanists. Three varieties are described,—the green, the golden, 
and the large-leaved golden. The golden varieties are not men- 
tioned by Bauhin in his phytopinax, 1596, nor in his pinax, 1623, 
but are mentioned just as if a well-known variety in Le Jardinier 
Solitaire, 1612. The green variety is figured by nearly all the 
earlier botanists. The golden has the following synonymy : 
Pourpier dore. Le Jard. Solit., 1612, 378; Tourn., 1719, 236; 
Vilm., 1883, 518. 
Red or Golden. Quintyne, 1693, 199. 
Portulaca sativa lutea sive aurea. Ray, 1688, 1039. 
Golden purslane. Ray, 1688, 1039; Townsend, 1726, 19; 
Mawe, 1778; Burr, 1863, 392. ) 
Purslane was formerly much more grown than at present; 
with Quintyne it was a vegetable for forcing. It is seldom seen 
in American gardens, but the spinage from the wild plant is oc- 
casionally served at table. 
Purstane is called in France, pourpier, porcelin, porcellane, por- 
chailles ; in Germany, portulak, kreusel; in Flanders and Hol- 
land, postelein, postelijn, porcelein; in Denmark, portulak ; in 
Italy, porcellana ; in Spain, verdolaga ; in Portugal, deldroega ;* 
in Norway, portulak ;* in Russia, schrucha.” 
In Arabia, brabra, chamile, doenned el farras, ridjlet el farras ;* 
3? Hooker. Fl. Br.-Ind., I., 240, ex. D.C. Orig. Des. Pl. Cult., 70. 
38 Albertus Magnus. De Veg., Jessen ed., 1867, 548. 
39 Ruellius. De Nat. Stirp., 1536, 482. 
4 Vilmorin, Les Pl. Pot., 517. 
42 Decandolle. Orig. Des PI. Cult., 70. 
8 Forskal. Fl, Æg., Arab., CXII. 
