704 The American Naturalst. [August, 
now in red, golden, yellow, and white varieties, and a parti-colored 
fruit is mentioned by J. Bauhin in 1651, and the type of the 
bronze-leaved by Blackwell in 1770. It was probably the kind 
mentioned by Jefferson as cultivated in Virginia in 1781, as it 
was the kind whose introduction into general culture is noted 
from 1806 to about 1830, when their growing was becoming 
general. | 
It has the following synonymy, gained from figures : 
Poma amoris, an Glaucium Diosc. Lob. obs., 1576, 140. 
‘Poma amoris. Lytes Dod., 1578, 440. Cam. Epit., 1586, 
821; Ger., 1597, 275; Swert., 1654, t. 20, p. 2. 
Poma aurea. Lugd., 1587, 628. 
Poma amoris, pomum aureung Lob. ic., 1591, I., 270. 
Solanum pomiferum, fructu rotundo, molli. Matth. op., 1598, 
761. 
Poma amoris fructu luteo et rubro. Hort. Eyst., 1613 ; 1713. 
Aurea mala. Dod., 1616, 458; 1583, 455. 
Tom d oro. Cast. Dur., 1617, 372. 
Pomum amoris majus. Park. Par., 1929, 381, f. 3. 
Amoris pomum. Blackw., 1750, t. 133. 
Mala aurea. Chabr., 1677, 525. J. B., 1650, 3, 620. 
Solanum pomiferum. Mor. Hist., 1699, s. 13, t. I, f 7. 
Lycopersicon. Tourn., 1719, t; 63. 
Lycopersicon galent. Morandi, 1744, t. 53, f. 8. 
Common Large Red. Mawe, 1778. 
Morelle pomme d'amour. Descourt., 1827, VI., 95. 
Tomate rouge grosse. Vilm., 1883, 555. 
Large Red. Burr; 1863, 646. 
In form these synonyms are substantially of one variety. The 
descriptions accompanying and others of the same date mention 
all the colors now found. In 1719 Tournefort names a pale red, 
red, a yellow, and a white variety in France, and in 1778 Mawe 
but the common large red in England. In 1854 Brown describes 
but two varieties, the large red and the large yellow, for American 
gardens. The Lycopersicum esculentum L. is said by Bojer to 
grow spontaneously in the Mauritius [as an ey 
89 Jefferson. Notes, 1803, 54. 
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