802 History of Garden Vegetables. 
universal, living, use to describe the polled cow in all her various 
forms. 
Mr. Euren, in his history of the breed in the Red Polled Herd 
Book, Vol. I., very evidently was perfectly unconscious of the fact 
of the claims of the word mooly to being an early Suffolk provin- 
cialism. If he had, how more positive would have been the remark- 
able'query he makes—showing how close his “ speculation ” came to 
real exactitude ;—note he uses marks indicating the “ foreign” use 
of the word: “‘Muley’ cattle have been in Virginia for a great 
many years, and their descendants have also been uniformly polled. 
. . . It would be of value to the students of the history of cattle 
were search to be made respecting the introduction of polled stock 
into America. It is recorded that many of the earlier settlers were 
natives of Norfolk and Suffolk villages. May they not have taken 
over polled cattle, which at that day were so numerous in Suffolk 
and on the Norfolk borders?” 
He does not suggest that these settlers, if they did not—the first 
of them—take polled cattle, took the word mooly with them ; and, 
finding that the cattle there, of various origins, then or subsequently 
introduced, frequently coming polled, applied the word to them they 
had been accustomed to. 
HISTORY OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
BY E. LEWIS STURTEVANT, M.D. 
(Continued from page 433.) 
Ice Plant. Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. 
THE ice plant, from the Cape of Good Hope, was introduced 
into Europe in 1727.! It is advertised in American $ 
lists? of 1881 as a desirable vegetable for boiling like spinage, °° 
for garnishing. Vilmorin? says the thickness and slightly acid 
1 Noisette. Man., 1829, 538. 
2 Thorburn’s Cat., 1881. 
3 Vilmorin. The Veg. Gard., 1885, 275. 
