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tamatas® Acosta, however, preceding 1604, used the word 
tomates, and Sloane,” in 1695, tomato. 
Both the yellow and the red-fruited are named by Matthiolus”™ 
in 1554, but the prevalence of the name golden apple in the 
various languages would indicate that this was the color most 
generally distributed. The shades are given as golden by 
Matthiolus 1554, ocher yellow by J. Bauhin ® in 1651, and deep 
orange by Bryant™ in 1783. I give only the first authors when 
the color is mentioned, and do not follow with succeeding authors, 
who are Many. 
The red color is noted by Matthiolus,” 1554, the pale-red 
by Tournefort® in 1700, and ve purple-red in the Adversaria,” 
1570. 
The white-fruited is named i Lyte™ in 15 a by Bauhin ® in 
1596, etc. 
The versicolored by J. Bauhin ® in 1651. 
The bronze-leaved ‘is indicated in Blackwell’s Herbarium,” 1750. 
The cultivated species, following Dunal, are Lycopersicum 
pimpinellifolium L., L. pyriforme L., L. humboldtii L., L. cerasi- 
forme L.,and L. esculentum L. If these species are well founded, 
then it seems as if an additional species should be formed which 
hould include our globular, smooth, unribbed sorts, and this we 
must do if we would follow out the history of the varieties. 
Lycopersicum esculentum Dun. 
This is the common species, with flattened and more or less 
ribbed fruit, and is the kind first introduced into European cul- 
ture, being described in the Adversaria of 1570, as well as by 
many succeeding authors, and the earlier figures indicate that it 
has changed but little under culture, and was early known as 
% Bontius. Ind. Orient., 1658, 131. 
3t Acosta, Hist., 1604, 266. 
1696, 109. 
J. Bauhin. Hist., 1651, IILI., 620. 
% Bryant. FI. Diet., 1783, 2 
%Tournefort. Inst., 1719, 150. e 
% Bauhin. Phytopin., 1596, 302. 
%1 Blackwell. Herb., 1750, t. 133. 
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