Bo- 1 History of Garden Vegetables. [June 
very distinct in appearance. The synonymy in part is as below. 
First, for the sharp-pointed forms, which are ancient,— 
I. The long, taper-pointed forms, 
Pastinaca sativa prima. Pens 1542, 682 (very little improved). 
. Roszlin, 1550, 1 
Staphylinus. Tragus, eee 
Cam. Epit., 1586, 509 ery highly improved); Matth., 
1598, 549 
Pushes sativa Diosc. Daucus Theophrasti. Lob. ic., 1 591, 
O. 
eee sativa atrorubens. ree feih > ZE 3. 
Pastinaca sativa tenuifolia. gE, 597. 5 
Pastinaca tenuifolia sativa. Dod, 1616, 78. 
Pastinaca sativa rubens. Dod., 1616, 78. 
Long yellows, reds, and whites of modern growing. 
II. The half-long, taper-pointed forms. 
? Pastinaca sativa altera. Fuch., 1542, 683 (very poor). 
Siser. : Matth. Com., 13 58, et ee 1561, 147 
\Siser alterum. Cam. E pit, 1586, 227. 
Carota. Cast. Dur., ; OS: 
Blanche des siebe Vilmona, 1883, 70. 
Danvers half-long of American ‘gardens. 
The premorse forms offer a number of sub-types which are 
very distinct, some being nearly spherical, others cylindrical, 
and yet others tapering, but all ending abruptly at the base, the 
tap-root starting from a flat, or nearly flat, surface. Their ap- 
pearance seems to be modern. 
. The spherical. The earliest mention I find of this type is 
in France in 1824, 1826, and 1829,—the Courte de Pollande* It 
is figured by Decaisne & Naudin, and, in a more improved form, 
-by Vilmorin in 1883.3 
II. The cylindrical, The carrots of this type are remarkably 
distinct, and have for types the Carentan and the Coreless of 
Vilmorin. The first was in American seed-catalogues in 1878. 
II. The tapering. Quite a number of varieties belong. to 
this class, of which the Early Horn is the type. This was men- 
tioned for American gardens by McMahon‘ in 1806, and by suc- 
ceeding authors. 
= ¥ L’Hort. Fran., 1824; Petit, Dict. du Jard., 1826; Noisette, Man., 1829. 
? Decaisne & Naudin, Man., iv. 125. 3 Vilmorin, Les Pl. Pot., 1883, ae 
— Aa Gard. Cal., 1806, 313. 
