328 The American Naturalist. [April, 
The solidity of the head and the perfectness of the form in 
this class of cabbage indicate long culture and a remote origin. 
In England they have never attained much standing for general 
use, and as in this country are principally grown for pickling. 
The Red Cabbage is called in France, chou pommerouge ; in 
Germany, vote kopfkohl ; in Italy, cavalo rosso ; in Dutch, rood 
kool ; in Spain, derza colorado ; ™' in India, lal kobee.'” 
The synonymy seems to be as follows : 
i 
Brassica convoluta and arcte occlusa rubro colore. Adv., 1570, 
gl. 
B. Lacuturria, Lyte’s Dod., 1586, 637. 
B. Capitata rubra. Bauh. Phytopin., 1596, 176; Pin., 1623, 
HE; Ger. Herb., 1597, 246; J. Bauh., Hist., 1651, II.,831 ; Ray, 
Hist., 1686, 621. 
B. rubra capitata. Dod. Pempt., 1616, 621. 
Chou pomme rouge. Tourn., Inst., 1719, 2 19. 
Red cabbage, spherical headed forms. 
II. 
Dark red early pointed headed. Vilm., Alb. de Cliches, 1885. 
New Garfield Pickeler. Tillinghast Cat., 1884. 
RHUBARB. . Rheum sp. 
The rhubarb as a vegetable is in more repute in American and 
English gardens than in France, and is now widely distributed 
and much grown in American gardens. It is, however, of recent 
introduction ; the first of its kind being only known about 1608, 
and the first reference I find to its growth as a vegetable in Eng- 
land being in 1778, although its culture probably dates somewhat 
earlier. It appeared in American gardens before 1806, but in 
1821 Cobbett says he had never seen it in America. In 1822, 
110 J. W. Gent. Syst. Hort., 1683, 203. Townsend. Seedsman, 1726, 27, etc. 
1 McIntosh. Book of the Gard., II., 116. 
112 Speede. Ind. Handb. of Gard., 114. 

