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Description of the Varieties. 
1. Plant strongly scented, stem hairy, leaves unequally 
one to two pinnate. — (Ly coper sicum esculentum.) 
A. Stem weak, plant decumbent. 
a. Leaflets numerous, toothed, more or less 
pinnate, (var. vulgare). 
*. Fruit more than two-celled, with a 
more or less distinct cavity about 
the stem. 
{. Fruit deep scarlet. 
§. Outline angular or 
corrugated. 
No. 1. ALPHA, Thor,, '83, '87. 
Fruit medium to large; strongly oblate, the more regular samples 
inclining to hemispherical; outline almost always more or less angular 
and often corrugated; cavity medium or shallow, furrowed; basin 
small or wanting in the well-formed fruits, with a russet spot at the 
center, usually more or less ringed and fissured in the larger fruits; 
cells 6 to many; flesh moderately firm; — plant rather feeble; calyx 
segments a little more than half as long as the corolla ; — season early. 
No. 2. ARLINGTON, Greg., '83, '87. 
Fruit medium to very large; strongly oblate; outline usually more 
or less angular, often corrugated; cavity medium, deeply furrowed; 
basin sometimes almost wanting in the smaller fruits, being marked 
only by a very small fissure surrounded by a small russet ring; in the 
larger fruits the basin is often very irregular; cells 5 to many, small; 
flesh very thick and firm ; — plant very vigorous ; — foliage rather pale 
green, leaflets rather broad; calyx segments a little shorter than the 
corolla; — season rather late. 
No. 3. BERMUDA, Land., '87. (Not of Burr.) 
Syn. Extra Early or Cluster, Land., '87. 
Fruit medium to large; oblate; outline extremely irregular, angular 
in the smaller and deeply corrugated in the larger fruits; cavity shal- 
low, deeply furrowed in the larger fruits; basin wanting in all except 
the largest samples, in which it is fissured, but without a defined ring; 
cells numerous and very large; flesh thin, remarkably soft; — plant 
