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Lycopersicum Pimpinellifolium. 
Annual, stem herbaceous, smooth, weak ; leaves quite equally pinnate, 
leaflets round ovate or cordate, quite entire ; racemes simple, naked, long ; 
fruit small, round, smooth, arranged in two ranks. Plant slender and dif- 
fuse, not odorous as the common tomato. 
Solanum pimpinellifolium. Lin. sp., 1762, 265, Willd. sp., 1797, I, 1033 — 
Pers. syn., I, 226 — Mill, diet., 1807, n. 32. 
Burnet-leaved tunato ? Mawe's gard. diet., 1778. 
Solanum pimpinellinum, L. (sic). Lam., enc. meth., 1797, IV, 286. 
Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium. Dun. sol., 1813, 111. 
Grape or Cluster tomato. Burr, veg. of Am., 1863, 646. 
Tomato groseille. Vilm., les pi. pot., 1883, 560, fig. 
Currant tomato of American seedsmen. 
The habitat of this species is given as Peru by Linnaeus, "Willdenow, 
Persoon and Miller, and as Peru and Brasil by Dunal. The plant is 
extremely hardy, vigorous and prolific, the long racemes often containing 
twenty or more clear, bright red fruits somewhat larger than a very large 
currant. 
Lycopersicum Esculentum. 
• Annual. Stem herbaceous, hairy, glandular ; leaves unequally and inter- 
ruptedly 1-2 pinnate ; leaflets more or less incised and toothed, varying much 
in varieties, often entire ; calyx lobes of variable length in relation to the 
corolla ; flowers often coalescent ; fruit 2-many celled, globose, depressed 
and angular, or elongated ; and red, yellow or white in color. Plant weak 
and decumbent, sub-erect, or occasionally erect. 
Var. a. Cerasiforme. Stem weak; calyx little, shorter than the corolla; 
berry globose, small or of medium size, neither ribbed nor angular, borne 
in clusters, normally 2-celled, red or yellow. Flowers scarcely ever 
coalescing. 
This variety or race has been described under the following names : 
1. The red fruited : 
Solanum racemosum cerasorum forma. Bauh. i^rod., 1620; pin., 1623 
167 — Sloane cat., 1696, 109. 
S. racemosum cerasorum forma C. Bauhini. J. Bauh., 1650, 3, 623. 
Pomum amoris, cujus fructus colore, magnitudine, etc., plane similis 
erat Strychnodendros. Hernand., 1651, 296, note. 
S. pomiferum fructu rotundo, parvo molli, rubro piano. Mor. hort., 
bles., 1669, 310 — Mor. ox., 1699, 3, 521 — Bai hist, 1701, supl., 3, 352 — 
Tourn. inst., 1719, 150 — Tilli. cat. pisan., 1723, 106. 
S. pomiferum, fructu rubro minore. Weinm. phyt., 1745, t. 935 } fig. d. 
S. lycopersicum, var. b. Lin. sp., 1762, 265. 
Lycopersicum cerasiforme. Dun. sol., 1813, 113. 
Lycopersicum esculentum, Mill. var. cerasiforme. Gray, syn. fl. 2, 226. 
Bed Cherry of American gardens. 
2. The yellow fruited : 
Solanum pomiferum fructu rotundo, parvo, molli, luteo, piano. Mor. 
hort. bles., 1669, :;i<>. 
