986 History of Garden Vegetables. 
ing that these figures represent the improved forms of our present 
culture, but as the prototypes from which our plants have appeared, 
as shown not only by resemblance of leaf form, but through the 
study of variables in the garden. Ray, in 1686, describes the Cos 
as having light green and dark green varieties, and these, as well 
as the Spotted Cos, are indicated by Bauhin in 1623. 
III. The Headed Lettuce. 
This is the sort commonly grown, and the figures given in the 
sixteenth century indicate that the heading habit was even then 
firmly established. We have the following synonyms to offer, pre- 
mising that types are referred to, and not exact variety resem- 
ance :— 
a. 
Lactuca crispa. Matth., 1558, 264; Pin., 1561, 195. 
Lattuga. Cast. Dur., 1617, 243. 
La royale? Le Jard. Solit., 1612; Quintyne, 1690, etc. 
Laitve Blonde de Berlin, syn. Laitve royale. Vil., 1883, 295. 
rlin. 
b. 
Lactuca sativa sessilis sive capitata. Lob. ic., 1591, i., 242. 
Lactuca capitata. Dod., 1616, 645 
Very Early Dwarf Green. 
Lactuca. Cam. epit., 1586, 298. 
Lactuca capitata. Ger., 1597, 240. 
Lactuca crispa. Matth. op., 1598, 399. 
Batavians. Vil., 188 
di 
Lattich. Roszlin, i550, 167. 
Green Fringed. 
This latter identification is from the appearance of the young 
plant. The old plant is remarkably,jdifferent, forming a true 
rosette. 
IV. Cutting and Miscellaneous. 
a. 
Lactuca crispa aitera. Ger., 1597, 240. 
Lactuca crispa et tenuiter dissecta, J. Bauh., 1651, ii., 1000; Chabr., 
1677, 314. 
Curled Cutting. 
