828 History of Garden Vegetables. 
are greatly esteemed in Italy and some parts of Germany, al 
are frequently brought to table by way of dessert. At Consta 
tinople the tubers appear in the markets, and are eaten raw, 
made into a conserve! Gerarde, in 1633, speaks of their exte 
sive use in Italy, being hawked about the streets, and, at Vero 
eaten as dainties? They now appear in the English markt 
under the name of Zulu nuts.’ It must also have been esteem! 
in ancient times, for tubers have been found in Egyptian tom 
of the twelfth dynasty, or from two thousand two hundred 
two thousand four hundred years before Christ4 A 
Laurembergius, in his “Apparatus Plantarum,” 1632, a 
them Gramen amygdalosum, commonly called Thrasi vert 
sium ; conveniently called Dulcichinum, Dulcinium, Cyperus aa 
lentus, Cyperus angustifolius, uncus avellana, Margarita agyi. 
etc. They are figured or described by nearly all the early botani 
The chufa, earth-almond, or rush-nut is called, in 
souchet comestible, amande de terre, souchet sultan, souchet tuberi 
trasi; in Germany, erdmandel; in Flanders, aardmandil; jf 
Italy, mandorla di terra, dolcicchini ; in Spain, chufa, cofi; 3 
in the Soudan, zebbon s in Egypt, ad-e/-azis ;° in Arabic, ae q 
—i.e., granum dilectum. j -aad 
Notwithstanding the long-continued culture of this ‘ea 
find no varieties described. fe 
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CLARY. Salvia sclarea L. 
The common Clary was formerly much more cultivati 
gardens than at present. Townsend, in 1726, says par 
of it are used in Omlets, made with Eggs, and so must 
garden.” In 1 778, Mawe? gives three varieties; Tt 
leaved, the long-leaved, and the most wrinkled-leaved j 
mentioned as cultivated in England by Ray,” 1696 
1597; and it is the orminum of Turner,” 1538. It was F 
ican gardens preceding 1806,3 and now occurs wild in ° i 
vania, naturalized as an escape," its home being the East 
* Walsh., Hort. Trans., vi. 50. 2 Gerarde, Herbal, 1633,3% og. a 
ure, Jan. 3% 
5 Vilmorin, Les Pl, Pot., 1883, 551.. 6 Heuze, Les Pl. Alim., ii. 55E 
Egypt, illust. 
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9 Mawe, Gard 1778 10 Ray, Hist., 1686, 543 rint) 
? ee O Y, ISl., ‘ee a 
Gerarde, Herb., 1 597, 626. 12 Turner, Libellus (fac-sim! ; % a 
ahon, Am. Gard. Kal., 1806. 14 Gray, Syn. Fl, ii, pt. 1, 317 
