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On the Cultivated Potato. 
range I have brought together in the form of a paper for the 
Linnean Society ; it is illustrated by drawings of each of the 
five distinct specific types : the paper will not be printed in 
extenso for some months. Meanwhile please use my summary of 
Fig. 1. — Haulm, Flower, and Berry of Solanum tuberosum, from the 
Plate of Clusius (de I'Ecluse^ mentioned hij De Candolle, and pub- 
lished in the year 1601. 
conclusions in any way you wish. The different accounts do not 
agree as to the sort of place the wild potato grows in ; the ac- 
counts are so contradictory, from them safe conclusions cannot 
be drawn : the Linnean Society paper * cites all the obtainable 
testimony. 
* " Cultivators work on the tacit assumption thnt the one object in life of tha 
potato-plant is to grow pofcitoca, and this assumption has no sound foundntiou in 
fact or reality." — Mr. Baker's ' Linnean Paper.' 
