On the Love Apple. 



that Parkinson* notices, he calls it the Pomum Amoris 

 minus, and also Malum JEthiopicum ; but he was mistaken 

 in this latter name, not only as to the plant, but as to its 

 origin ; the Malum ^thiopicum of all other authors is a very 

 distinct species of Solanum. Linnaeus-)" made the Cherry 

 Love Apple a variety of his Solanum Lycopersicum, and 

 took no notice of any other. Miller, in his Dictionary^ 

 says, that he cultivated this, as well as the Yellow Cherry 

 Love Apple ; they were used in medicine in his time. 



* Paradisus, page 371), f Sp. Plant, edit, 1, Vol. i. page 185. 



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