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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, August, 1887. 
HISTORY OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
BY E. LEWIS STURTEVANT, A.M., M.D." 
(Continued from page 912.) 
Ecc-PLANT. Solanum melongena L. 
| age egg-plant seems not to have been known in Europe in 
the time of the ancients. The Arab physician, Ebn Baithar, 
Who wrote in the thirteenth century, speaks of it, and cites 
Rhases, who lived in the ninth century.2 Albertus Magnus, 
: who lived in Europe in the thirteenth century, mentions it,— 
“Et sic inveninutur tres sapores in melangena, amarus acutus 
* stypticus.” Ibn-al-awan, a Moorish Spaniard of the twelfth 
_Sntury, describes four species, and the Nabatheenne agriculture 
=. According to Jessen,s Avicenna, who flourished about 
AD. 595, knew it, and called it Badingan. This latter word, 
; Saan spelled, is the present name in Hindustanee, Arabic, 
n, and Sumatran‘ and the closely corresponding English? 
> in India is Brinjal, and Begoon ;® in Spain, Berengena; or 
i esau Domingo, Beringene9 Bretschneider® says the egg-plant 
| “n be identified in the “ Ts’i min yao shu,” a Chinese work on 
l ; eat the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 
R e, Orig. des Pl. Cult., 229. oe 
: us, De Veg., Jessen ed., 1867, 204. p 
Le Livre d'Agriculture. Trans. of Clement-Mullet, 1886, ii. pt. 1, 
Drury Magnus, 1. €., note, 6 Birdwood, Veg. Prod. of Bombay, 173- 
be » Useful pi. of Ind., 410. 8 Firminger, Gard. in Ind., 155- 
b e» ii. 695, 1 Bretschneider, Bot. Sin., 59- 
