326 - The American Naturalist. [April, 
The radish is called in France, radis, petite rave, rave jni Ger- 
many, radies; in Flanders and Holland, rads; in Denmark, 
haveroeddike ; in Italy, ravanello, radice ; in Spain, rabanito ; in 
Portugal, rabao, rabanite ;" in Norway, reddik ,* in Greece, 
rapania.™ 
In Arabic, figl” fioyl, bokel; in Bengal, moola;™ in Burma, 
mung-la ;* in Ceylon, radu ;™ in Egypt, fidjel 9 in Hindustani, 
moola, muli ;™ in India, moolee ;” in Japan, daikon ; in Malay; 
lobak; in Sanscrit, mooluka; in Tamil, moolinghie ; in Telinga, 
mullangi 
Raphanus caudatus L. 
This radish has pods often a foot or more in length, and these 
find use as a vegetable. It became known to Linnæus in 1764;” 
it reached England from Java about 1816, and was described 
by Burr” as an American kitchen plant in 1863. According to 
Firminger % the plant has but lately come into cultivation in 
India, and there bears pods often three feet in length. These pods 
make excellent pickles. 
It was at first called in England tree radish from Java,” in 
India, rat-tailed radish,* the name it now holds in the United 
States; by Burr,” in 1863, Madras radish. 
There are a number of radishes now known whose type re- 
quires further study before presentation. Such are the Chinese 
winter radishes, whose roots are swollen more at the base than at 
the summit, the oil-bearing radish, etc. The first of these is in 
general cultivation in Japan. 
8 Schubeler. Culturpf., 107. 
8 Pickering. Ch, Hist., 473. 
Delile. Fl. Æg. IIL 
9% Birdwood. Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 138. 
% Speede. Ind. Handb. of Gard., 147. 
% Miller's Dict., 1807. 
% Gard. Chron., 1866, 779. 
% Burr. Field and Gard. Veg., 384. 
% Firminger. Gard. in Ind., 140. 
