442 History of Garden Vegetables. [May 
modern mention presupposes, some time scarcely preceding the 
last century. 
The names given in various languages to thee Brussels Sprouts 
are as follows: France, chou de Bruxelles, ch. rosette, ch. a jets, ch. 
a jets et rejets, ch. spruyt de Bruxelles; Germany, rosenkohl, sprossen- 
koll; Flanders and Holland, spruitkool; Denmark, rosenkaal ; 
Italy, cavolo a germoglio ; Spain, bretones de Brusselas ; Portugal, 
couve de Bruxelas d'olhos repolhudos.* 
BucksHorn PLANTAIN. Plantago Coronopus L. 
A salad plant of very minor importance. It is mentioned as 
grown in gardens by Camerarius, 1586, and by very many of the 
other botanists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; is 
described by Ray? in 1686 as cultivated in England, and not dif- 
fering from the wild plant except in size and in the other accidents 
of culture. Townsend,‘ in 1726, says the seed is now “ in all the 
Seedsmen’s Bills, tho’ it is seldom in the Gardens.” It is de- 
scribed and figured by Vilmorin’ among French vegetables. 
During the three hundred years in which we find it pictured, we. 
find no evidence of any essential changes produced by cultivation. 
The names in the European languages are,—English, duckshorn 
plantain, star of the earth; in France, Corne-de-serf, courtine, 
pied-de-corbeau, pied-de-corneville ; in Germany, hirschhorn salat ; 
in Flanders, veversblad, hertshoorn ; in Italy, corno di cervo, coro- 
nopo, erba stella; in Spain, estrellamar, cuerno de ciervo. By the 
ancient botanists, Coronopus, Cornu cervinum, and Herba stella. 
Bunias. Sunias orientalis L. 
The young leaves and shoots are rather recommended by Vil- 
morin either as a salad or boiled. It is named by Tournefort 
Crambe orientalis, dentis leonis folio, erucaginis facie. Vilmorin 
gives its native country as Western Asia. I do not know of its 
De appearance in American gardens 
It is called in England 7% PE Rocket; in France, Bunias 
@ Orient, 
Burpock. Arctium lappa L. 
The use of the succulent stems of the Burdock as a spinage 
ae * Vilmorin, Les Pl. Pot., 1883. Jorun, Epit., 1586, 276. | 
: aerate a ownsend, Seedsman, 1726, 18, 
