646 = The American Naturaust. [July, 
Spanish, Italian, French, and German names, which goes to show 
its culture in these countries. In England, they are said to be 
cultivated in 1633," but McIntosh’ says they were introduced 
in 1548, but they do not seem to have been known to Gerarde in 
1597. In 1633, Worlidge'? says “ eschalots are now from France 
become an English condiment" They are enumerated for 
American gardens in 1806.%  Vilmorin? mentions one variety 
with seven sub-varieties little differing 
The Shallot or eschalot is called in France, eschalote, chalote, ail 
sterile ; in Germany, schalotte, eschlauch ; in Flanders and Hol- 
land, sjalot; in Denmark, skalottelog ; in Italy, scalogno ; in 
Spain, chalote, escaluna ; in Portugal, eschalota , 16 in Norway, 
skalotlog ;* in the Mauritius, echallotte „" in China, Aiai ;'® in 
Cochinchina, cay nen; in India, gundhuna, gudheenk.™ 
AN AMERICAN TERRESTRIAL LEECH. 
BY S. A. FORBES. 
PNEU leeches are normally aquatic worms, terrestrial 
species of various genera occur in many parts of the world— 
Ceylon, Java, Summatra, Australia, Japan, Chili, and Brazil—and 
some properly aquatic leeches (Trocheta subviridis of Europe, for 
example) leave the water in pursuit of earthworms and other prey. 
I cannot find, however, that either the terrestrial habitat or the 
earthworm habit has been reported for any North American leech 
—a fact which gives especial interest to a hitherto unnoticed species 
occurring commonly in Illinois, and found, so far as known, only 
in moist earth. 
161 Miller's Dict., 1807. 
162 McIntosh. Book of the Gard. 
163 Syst. Hort:, by J. W. Gent, 1683, 193. 
164 McMahon. Am. Gard. Kal., 1806, 190. 
Loureiro. Cochinch., 202. : 
170 Speede, Ind. Handb, of Gard., 159. 
