History of Garden Vegetables. 905 
III. 
Nasturtium, Cam., Epit., 1586, 335. 
esha hortense latifolium. Bauh., Phytopin., 1596, 1603 
l, 1623, 103. 
Vasturtium latifolium dioscorideum. J. Bauh., 1651, ii. 913. 
Nasturtium latifolium. Chabr., 1677, 280. 
-Leaved Garden Cress. Ray, 1686, 825 ; Vil., 1885, 207. 
l -Leaved. Townsend, 1726; Stevenson, 1765, 34; Mawe, 
1778; McMahon, 1806; Mill. Dict, 1807. 
_ Lépidium latifolium. Lin., Sp., 1763, 899. 
Cresson à large feuilles: VL’ Hort. F ran, 1824; Petit, 1826. 
on alenois à large feuille. Vil., 1883, 195. 
IV. 
Cresson dore. Petit, 1826; Noisette, 1829. j 
T 38 Hort. Trans., 1826, vi. 583; Burr, 1863, 343; Vil, 
__ Tesson alenois dore, Nil., 1883, 195. 
It appears as if the types of the modern varieties have not 
changed through culture, as three are quite ancient, and the 
but an ordinary variation, or of a pale yellowish-green 
The curled cress seems to have been first observed by 
Bauhin, who furnished his brother, C. Bauhin, with seed pre- 
1596. : 
~ cress, gardyn cress," or pepper-grass, is called, in France, 
oo ois, passerage cultivée, nasitor ; in Germany, garten- 
beste; in Flanders, hofkers ; in Holland, tainkers ; in Denmark, . 
* in Italy, agretto, crescione inglese, cerconcello; in 
haf i mastuerzo, malpica; in Portugal, mastruco;? in Arabia, 
Hina See Arabic, reshad ;* in Bengali, aleverie, haleem;* in 
ni, chunsee ;° in India, kalim, or chansur ;7 in Persian, 
** in Sindh, ahreo; in Telegu, adala vitalas 
_havekarse 
, 
a. Cuckoo-FLlower. Cardamine pratensis L. 
; ot and nearly worthless salad plant, native to 
nd: of Europe, Northern Asia, and Arctic America, ex- 
to Vermont and Wisconsin. It has a piquant savor, 
ER used as water-cress, It is recorded as cultivated in the 
: MS, 1538. 2 Vilmorin, Les Pl. Pot., 194- 
j -Arab., č. Xvi. 4 Delile, Fl. Æg., illust. 
S Yir Prod, of Bomb., 7. 6 Ainslie, Mat. Med., i. 95- 
o T Handb, of Gard., 170. 
