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1891.] The History of Garden Vegetables. 805 
Alsace and inGermany. In China, according to Bretschneider,” 
it was known in the fifth century. 
Brassica rapa depressa DC. 
This has a large root expanding under the origin of the stem 
into a thick, round, fleshy tuber, flattened at the top and bottom. 
It has white, yellow, black, red or purple, and green varieties. It 
seems to have been known from ancient times, and is described 
and figured in the earlier botanies. ; 
A. Flattened both above and below. 
Rapum. Matth., 1554, 240; Cam. Epit., 1586, 218. 
Rapum sive rapa. Pin., 1561, 143. 
Rapa. Cast. Dur., 1617, 386. 
Navet turnip. Vilm., 1883, 583. 
B. Flattened, but pointed below. 
Orbiculatum seu turbinatum rapum. Lob. ic., 1791, I., 197. 
Rapum. Porta, Phytognom, 1591, 120. 
Rapum vulgare. Dod., 1616, 673. 
Rave d’ Auvergne tardive. Vilm., 1883, 369. 
Rapum. Trag., 1552, 728.@ 
Rapa, La Rave. Tourn., 1719, 113. 
Navet jaune d'Hollande. Vilm., 1883, 370. 
Yellow Dutch. Vilm., 1885, 588. 
Brassica rapa oblonga DC. 
This race differs from the preceding in having a long and 
oblong tuber tapering to the radicle. It seems an ancient form,— 
perhaps the Cleonzum of Pliny. 
Vulgare rapum alterum. Trag., 1532, 729. 
Rapum longum. Cam. Epit., 1586, 219. 
Rapum tereti, rotunda, oblongaque radici. Lob. ic., 1591, I. 
‘197. 
Rapum oblongius. Dod., 1616, 673. 
Rapum sativum yoda and oblongum. J. Bauh., 16 $1, H, 
838. 
 * Bretschneider. Bot. Sin., 78. 

