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1885.) Kitchen Garden Esculents of American Origin. 549 
minger, ell pepper.’ The squash or tomato-shaped, sweet 
mountain, sweet Spanish and many other similar varieties of our 
seed catalogues belong to this form, of which the first was in our 
gardens preceding 1828, as also this and the sweet Spanish in 
French gardens. There are red and yellow sorts, as in most of 
the so-called species. This is perhaps the de// of Long’s Jamaica 
list, as he says it is esteemed most proper for pickling. 
C. longum DC. is another form usually referred to C. annuum. 
It reached Europe in 1548, or before,’ and would appear to be 
the second kind, so much esteemed, of De Vega, and the one of 
the sorts referred to by Ligon as “resembling a child’s corall.” 
Corail. is yet one of the names for this sort in France. It was 
grown in England in 1597 and before, as Gerarde speaks of it. 
There is a figure of it in Fuchsius’ Historia Stirpum, Basle, 1542, 
under the name of siliquastrum or calicut pepper, and a state- 
ment that the plant had been introduced into Germany from 
India a few years previously. It was in American gardens, by 
name at least, before 1806, and is the Zong red or long yellow of 
our present seed catalogues. 
C. microphyllum Dun. is said by Torrey to occur in Western | 
Mexico, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, etc., but he does not say 
whether cultivated or wild. The Mexicans call it chipatane, and 
use the fruit like other red peppers.® 
C. nepalense Drury is a variety growing in Nepaul, and very 
pungent and acrid.’ | 
C. oliveforme Mill.—A variety of C. annuum, and described by 
Miller in 1752, and by Tournefort in 1700. It came from Barba- 
does,’ and the name appears in Long’s Jamaica list. It may be 
the sort which appears in our catalogues under the name of cran- 
betry, but other kinds occasionally produce olive-shaped fruits. 
C. sinense L.—This sort was described by Linnzus and Jacquin 
about 1770-76, the fruit yellow. It is cultivated in Martinique. 
C. tetragonum.—this is said by Booth’ to be the ġonnet pepper 
1 Gard. in India, 153. 
2 Noisette, 1. c. 
5 Report of the Bot. of U. S. and Mex. Bound, Survey, 152, 
Drury, II. 
1 Miller’s Dict. 
8 Miller’s Dict. 
9 Treas. of Bot. 
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