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1673, No. 612, under the name Brassica Capitata, Kopffkohe. 
It may be the Brassica alba sessilis glomerosa, aut capitata 
Lactucae habitu of Pena & Lobel, Ad. 1570, 91, and an es- 
teemed vegetable in Italy and France, but this reference 
must be considered only as a supposition until supporting 
evidence is adduced. Lobel’s figum, Stirpium Nistori, 1576, 
referring to the Adversaria, p. 91 is a round cabbage.. The 
Chou Fumel of Vilmorin answers fully the description 
in the Adversaria, so far as it goes, and the picture in Vil- 
morin’s Album, No. 47378, might well be mistaken for a let- 
tuce. Wheeler, 1763, and Mawe, 1778, speak of a flat- 
topped cabbage, as does Lamarck in 1783, and Drumheads 
are named by M’Mahon in 1806. The prevalence of the 
word Dutch, Strasburg, d’ Allemagne, Brunswick, etc., as 
applied to varieties of this form, would indicate Germany 
or Holland as a source of distribution or origin. 
2. Brassica oleracea capitata sphaerica, DC., the Round- 
headed cabbage is the type figured in all the herbals to 
which I have had access, as follows: 
Fuchsius, 1542, p. 416. Ger. Kappiskraut. 
Tragus, 1552, p. 717. Ger. Kappes.’ 
Matthiolus comm, 1558. 247. Brassica capitata. 
Pinaeus, 1560, 163. Jt. Cavolo Cappuccio. Ger. Capshaut. Fr, Choux 
‘Cabuz. 
Lobel, 1576, 123. Brassica Capitata. Jt. Cavolo Cappuccio, Capuzzine. 
Pictorius ed. of Aem. Macer 1581, 90 (Same picture in ed. of 1559). Ger. 
Kabiskraut. 
Camerarius epit. 1586, 250. J¢. Cavolo cappuccia. Ger. Kapskraut. 
Fr, Choux Cabuz. Span. Repolho, Colhes morcianos, 
Gerarde, 1597, 245. Red Cabbage Cole, White Cabbage Cole. 
Dodonaeus pempt. 1616, 621, 623. Ger. Kappiskraut. Bel. Cabuys 
koole, Sluytkoole. #r, Choux Cabuz. 8p. Repolho, Colhes morcianos, Jt. 
Caulo Cappuccio, Cappuzzias. Hng. Cabbage. 
Bodaeus ed. of Theophr. 1644, 777. Brassica capitata alba. 
Chahaeus. Stirpium Sciaqraphia et Icones, 1677, 269. Brassica capitata 
-alba. 
3. Brassicia oleracea capitata obovata, DC. The Egg 
shaped cabbage, the small end of the oval being downward. 
4. Brassica oleracea capitata élliptica, DC. The Elliptic 
cabbage, the head a perfect oval, swelling out in the middle, 
The type of this, the Early York, is said by Rogers, quoted 
by Burr, to have been brought from Flanders to England 
by a soldier, more than a hundred years ago; as Burr wrote 
in 1863, this would place its introduction antedating 1763. 
It is mentioned by Stevenson, 1765, without any indication of 
its being other than a well-known variety. Ido not find it 
figured by any of the earlier writers, nor do I recognize it 
in any of the synonyms of Bauhin. Perhaps the long- 
sided Cabbage of Quintyne, ed. of 1693, belongs here, but I 
