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nal culty 
Others: 
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History of Garden Vegetables. 831 
is called, in France, coriandre ; in Germany, coriander ; in Flan- 
ders and Holland, oriander ; in Denmark, koriander ; in Italy, 
coriandorlo ; in Spain, culantro, cilantro* The name is probably 
derived from the Greek Zoris, a bug, from the offensive smell 
of the leaves. In Arabic, Aousbarah, kuzeerah ;* in Bengali, 
dhunya ;* in Ceylon, cotumbaroo; in Malay, mety; in Persian, 
_ Šushneez; in Tamil and Telegu, cottamillie ;3 in Sanscrit, dunya, 
aca 
Notwithstanding this extended period of cultivation, I find no 
indication of varieties under cultivation. 
Corn. Zea mays L., var. saccharata. 
The history of sweet corn, so far as we have discovered it, is 
Siven in the American NATURALIST for July, 1885. It is first 
noticed in 1779. In the “ Report of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station” for 1884 I have described thirty-three sorts, 
and in the report for 1886 a new form collected from the Indians 
of Mexico is mentioned and partly described. This vegetable is 
&rown far more in the United States than in Europe, and has 
become an object of field-culture for the supply of the canning 
e industries, 
The European names of sweet corn I do not find noted, 
except the mais sucre of the French. By Vilmorin the generic 
- ‘Rame of the Species is applied to this variety in his synonymy. 
Th 
“is presence of three distinct types, varying not alone in ap- 
ke ob but as well in their climatic adaptations, and the large 
; aoe of varieties quite distinct in minor features, indicate a 
_Pvious culture far more extended than appears in my recorded 
salty certainly does not seem reasonable to believe that 
“weet corn was confined until 1 779 to North American aborigi- 
re alone, and yet I have not even a clue that suggests 
ise, 
Corn Sarap. Valerianella olitoria Moench. 
annual plant has been found spontaneous in all temperate 
Europe : 
as far as 60° north; in Southern Europe to the Canary 
sles ; : n 
» Madeira, and the Azores; in North Africa, Asia Minor, 
z t >» nent 
2 Bind, sine Pl. Pot., 168, 2 Delile, Fl. Egypt, illust. 
Pl. of Ind., 162 
eg. Prod. of B 27, 
* Drury, Useful bap omb., 39: 162, 237 
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