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‘shaped, the elliptic, and the conical. Within each class are 
many sub-varieties. In Vilmorin’s standard work, “ Les Plantes 
Potagéres,” 1883, fifty-seven kinds are described, and others 
mentioned by name. In the “ Report of the New York Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station” for 1886, seventy varieties are 
described, excluding synonymes. In both cases the Savoys are 
treated as a separate class, and are not included. The his- 
tory of these forms, as well as I can make out, will now be 
iven. 
The Flat-Headed Cabbage-——The type, the “ Quintal.” The 
first appearance of this form that I find is in “ Pancovius Her- 
barium,” 1673, No. 612. A “common flat-winter,” probably 
this form, is mentioned by Wheeler,’ 1763; the “ flat-topped” 
is described by Mawe? in 1778. The varieties that are now 
esteemed are remarkably flat and solid. 
The Round Cabbage—tThe type, the “Early Dutch Drum- 
head.” This appears to be the earliest form with which we are 
acquainted, as it is the only kind figured in our early botanies, 
and was hence presumably the only, or, perhaps, but the prin- 
cipal, sort known during several centuries. The following 
synonomy is taken from drawings only, and hence there can be 
-no mistake in regard to the type: 
Brassice@ quartum Senus. Ta 1542, 416. 
87. 
Caulis capitulatus. oe 1552, 17. 
Brassica capitata. Matth., 1558, 247; Pinzus, 1 ae 163; 
Cam. Epit., 1586, 250. 
Kol oder Kabiskraut. Pictorius, 1581, 90 
Brassica alba sessilis glomerata, aut fat Lactuce habitu, 
Lobel ic., 1591, i. 243. 
; Brassica capitata albida. Lugd., 1587, i. 521; Dod. Pempt., 
1616, 6 
Pa capuccia. Cast. Dur., 1617, 7 
Brassica capitata alba. Bodzus, ibe 777; J. Bauhin, 1651, | 
ii. 826; Chabreus, 1677, 269 
The descriptive synonymy includes the “losed” cabbage, a 
great round cabbage of Lyte’s “Dodoens,” 1586; the White 
cabbage cole of Gerarde, 1597; the White Cabbage of Ray, 
1686; the chou pomme blanc of Tournefort, 1719; the English 
of Townsend, 1726; the Common white of Wheeler, 1763; the 
x Wheeler, Bot. and Gard. Dict., 1763, 79- 2 Mawe, Gard., 1778. 
