By M. De Candolle. 



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plant, the Nepenthes distillatoria, I have given the name of 

 nepenihiformis to this sub-variety, and class it immediately 

 under the variety that produced it ; but I should not be sur- 

 prised if the same accident were to be met with in every 

 other variety of Cabbages ; and in that case, I disclaim every 

 pretension to rank it even with the sub-varieties, and shall 

 consider it only as an accidental defect. The annexed figure 

 will give a correct idea of this irregular deviation. 



Third Race. Brassica oleracea bullata. 

 Chou cloque. Blistered Cabbage. 

 The Blistered, or Milan Cabbage, or Savoy, known to 

 gardeners by its short stem, by its leaves being thickly pres- 

 sed together when the plant is young, and expanding more 

 or less as it grows older, yet preserving at all times their 

 distinctive character of being blistered all over the surface, 

 occasioned by the parenchyma growing proportionally faster 

 than the nerves, in consequence of which it cannot be con- 

 tained in the space they leave. This race, commonly known 

 in France by the names of Chou de Milan* Chou de Savoy, 

 Chou cabu frise, Chou pommv /rise, Chou de Holland, and 

 Chou Pane alter, is intermediate between the Cavalier and the 

 Round-headed Cabbages ; it is allied to the first by the inter- 

 mediate variety of the Palm Cabbage, which, as we observed 

 before, has blistered leaves like the one, and a long stalk like 

 the other, but never forms a head. It resembles the Round- 

 headed Cabbages by the manner in which the leaves are 

 disposed, and differs from it by their appearance, which is 

 plain in the Round-headed Cabbages ; or what amounts to 

 * These are the Savoy Cabbages of the British gardens. Fee. 



