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b. 
Lactuca foliis querni. Ray, 1686, 219. 
Oak-leaved. 
C. 
Capitatam cum pluribus capitibus. J. Bauh., 1651, ii., 998; Chabr., 
77, 813. 
Egyptian Sprouting. 
The minor variations which are now separated into varieties did 
not receive the same recognition in former times, the same variety 
name covering what now would be several varieties; thus Quin- 
tyne, in 1693, calls perpignans both a green and a pale form, ete. 
Green, light green, dark green, red and spotted lettuces are named 
in the old botanies; hence we cannot assert any new types have 
appeared in modern aiae 
The generic names of the lettuce in the various languages are: 
in Greek, thridakine, thridakinos, thridax hemeros; in Latin, Lac- 
tuca;' in France, laitue cultivee ; in Germany, lattich; in Flanders 
and Holland, latouw ; in Denmark, salat; in Italy, lattuga ; in 
Spain, lechuga, ensiam ; in Portugal, T ? in Sweden, “erate 
and Russia, laktuk;* in Norway, salat;* in Arabic, khass* 
khus ;* in Ceylon, salada;7 in China, ye tsai, kiu,’ sheng-tsai, oak 
ku;° in Cochin China, rau, diep tau; in Egypt, chaff; in Hin- 
distant kahoo;’ in India, kahoo;™ in Japan, kantats, futsu kusa, 
too tsisa, 
?Grandsagne Pliny. Notes, xii., 354. 
? Vilmorin. Les Pl. Po t., 285. 
3 Miller’s Dict., 1807. 
“Schubeler. Cult. Pfl, den Norw., 85. 
5 Delile. Fl. Æg. Til. 
* Wilkinson. Anc. Egypt, ii., 22. 
' Birdwood. Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 49, 165. 
® Loureiro. Fl. Cochinch., 
° Bretschneider. On the Binay ete., 17. 
x Speede. Ind. Handb. of Gard., 166. 
Kæmpfer. Amcen., 1712, 831. 
