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ree; in Denmark, porre ; in Italy, porro; in Spain, puerro; in 
Portugal, alho porro; in Greece, to prasa; in Sweden, puris;} in 
Russia, pras ;? in Norway, purre In Arabic, karrat,* or kour- 
nas; in Bengali, puroo; in Egypt, korrat;* in India, kundaneh, 
zalook or puroo ;* in Persian, gundena.° 
This species is supposed by authors to be a cultivated form of 
Allium ampeloprasum L. 
Lentil. Ervum lens L. 
The cultivation of the Lentil is very ancient, as it has been 
found in the Egyptian tombs of the twelfth dynasty, or 2,200 to 
2,400 B.C.” It has also been found in the lacustrine debris of 
Switzerland dating from the age of bronze.* Its culture was well 
known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and has been continued 
through the middle ages to the present time. Bauhin,’ in 1623, 
names a large and a small sort, the seed reddish, pale yellow, white, 
` tawny and black, and Vilmorin,” in 1883, describes four varieties 
for garden culture. Its seed is used in soups and stews, and the 
culture is of more importance in the warmer regions. Lentils are 
recorded by Burr," in 1863, for American use; but much of the 
seed found exposed for sale in groceries is imported. 
The lentil is called in France lentille, arousse, aroufle; in Ger- 
many, linse; in Flanders and Holland, linze ; in Denmark, lindse ; 
In Italy, lente, lenticchia; in Spain, lenteja; in Portugal, lentitha." 
In Arabic, a’ds ;” in Egypt, adz; in India, mussoor ; in Sanscrit, 
mussoora ;"° in Latin, lens; in Slav, lesha; in Illyrian, lechja ; in 
Lithuanian, lenszic ; the Greeks, fakos or fakai ; the Berbers, ades.* 
'Decandolle. Geog. Bot., 848. 
*McIntosh. Book of the Gard., ii., 47. 
*Schubeler. Cult. Pflanz den N orw., 53. 
‘Delile. Fl. Æg. Ill. 
5 Birdwood. Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 136. 
*Speede. Ind. Handb. of Gard., 158. 
"Schweinfurth. Nature, Jan. 31, 1883, 314. 
* Decandolle, Orig. des Pl. Cult., 258. 
° Bauhin. Pin., 1623, 346. 
© Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 318. 
"Burr, Field and Gard. Veg., 1863. 
"2? Delile. Fl. Ægypt. lust. 
"° Birdwood. Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 119. 
