By M. De Candolle. 



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isting varieties, or produce new ones, all of which will no 

 doubt be undertaken, and executed one day or other. I 

 shall therefore content myself with presenting this memoir, 

 as a specimen of the method of classification, and nomen- 

 clature which appears to me useful to admit among culti- 

 vated vegetables in general, and conclude by claiming in- 

 dulgence for the inaccuracies of detail that, in spite of every 

 endeavour, may have escaped my notice. 



