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and others would lead us to infer that it had not yet entered into 
general European culture. According to Bauhin it is mentioned | 
"in the French edition of Dodonzus, 1553 or 1559. The raceof | 
cauliflowers owe their peculiarity to a suppression of the floral © 
organs and an abnormal development of the pedicels of the in- 
florescence. This peculiarity finds recognition in the majority 
of the names applied in the various languages, as will be ob- 
served in the following synonymy : 
Fuchsius (1542), Roszlin (1550), Tragus (1552), Matthiolus (1558), | 
Brassica florida, Adv., 1570, Or: Ger., 1597, 246, fig. 
B. florida botrytis. Lob., Obs., 1576, 123, cum ic.; Lob, ity 
1591, i. 245. . : 
“B. cauliflora. Cam., Epit., 1586, 252, cum ic.; Matth., 1598, 
367, cum ic.; Dod., 1616, 624, cum ic.; Bauh., Pin., 1623, il; 
Bodzus a Stapel, 1644, 776, cum ic. 
B. pompeiana, B. cypria. Lyte’s Dod., 1586, 636. 
B. pompeiana aut cypria, B. Jorida dodo. Lugd., 1587, 524 
cum ic. a 
B. cypria sive pompeiana, vulgo caulifiori. Cam., Hort., 1588,29. 
B. cauliflora, pompeiana plinio, Bauh., Phytopin., 1596, 177+ 
Bradica florida. Cast., Dur., 1617, ap. cum tc. | 
B. multiflora. J. Bauh., 1651, ii. 829, cum ic.; Chabr., 1677, 
269, cum tc. a 
_ The vernacular names earliest recorded are mostly founded 
upon the bloom, and may be translated flowering-cabbage. " : 
the English name used by Lyte in 1586 we have a source d 
origin indicated, as Cypress coleworts. Dalechampius likewity: 
in 1587, gives one French name as Chou de Cypre. Pierres 
Pompes, a French author of 1694, is quoted by Phillips as say" 
ing about the cauliflower, “It comes to us in Paris, by way 
Marseilles, from the isle of Cyprus, which is the only place 
know of where it seeds.” Strange, indeed, it is to find, at 4 date 
as remote as 1565, the cauliflower to be reported as abounding 
at Hayti, in the New World, at a date preceding nearly all 0 
recorded mentionings. It was, however, a well-known and cafe — 
-fully-cultivated plant in France in 1612, if we may trust “ Le J 
dinier Solitaire.” Rauwolf? who travelled through the Orient 
1573-75, found the Caulifiore at Aleppo. In England it is Agu" 
by de in 1597, and must have been known to Lyte in 15 
* Benzoni, Hist. of the New World, Hak. Soc. Ed., 91. 
* Gronovius, Fl, Orient., 1755, 81. 
