On the Love Apple. 



by the above travellers, that this is also called Tomates by 

 the inhabitants of the country where it grows. 



M. Dunal, in a more recent work than that above men- 

 tioned, entitled Solanorum, fyc. Synopsis, published in 1816, 

 enumerates ten species of Lycopersicum * In this, and in his 

 Histoire des Solanum, are L. pyriforme and L. cerasiforme, 

 being the Pear-shaped and Cherry Love Apples which have 

 been described. I strongly suspect that not only these, but 

 several others, if not all, of the supposed species which do 

 not appear to have been found wild, will prove to have one 



* The following are the species of Lycopersicum enumerated by Dunal in his 

 Synopsis ; it will be observed that ascertained habitats are assigned to five only of 

 the ten species. 



1. L. pimpinellifnlium. Lin. Sp. PL Edit. 2. vol. i. p. 265. Habitat in 

 Peruvia et Brazilia. 



2. L. regulare. Habitat , in horto Gaditano lectum. 



3. L. Peruvianum. Lin. Sp. PL Edit. 2. vol. i. p. 265. Jacq. Ic. Ear. 

 vol. ii. tab. 327. Habitat in Peruviae aridis locis. 



4. L. dentatum. Habitat . 



5. L. hirsutum. Humb. et Bonpl. (Nov. Gen. et Spec. vol. iii.page 18.) Ha- 

 bitat in agris Peruvianis, prope Loxa. 



6. L. Humboldtii. Willd. Hort. Ber. vol. i. page 27. tab. 27. Ejusdem 

 Enum. Hort. Ber. page 235. Habitat in America meridionali ad fluvium 

 Rio Negro. 



7. L. pyriforme. Solanum pomiferum. Cav. Descript. page 112. Habitat , 



in hortis botanicis cultum. 



8. L. Cerasiforme. Solanum Lycopersicum /3. Lin. Sp. PL Edit. 1. vol. i. 

 page 185. Solanum pseudo-Lycopersicum, Jacq. Hort. Find. vol. i. tab. 1 1. 

 Habitat in locis maritimis Peruvia? ; in hortis cultum. 



9. L. esculentum. Solanum Lycopersicum. Lin. Sp. PI. Edit. 1. vol.i. page 

 1815. Habitat in America cahdiore ? 



10. L. procumbens. Miller's Diet. Habitat. 



