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Review of DeCandolle's origin of cultivated plants; with annotations upon certain American species; Part 2

1883; Yale University; Volume: s3-25; Issue: 149 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2475/ajs.s3-25.149.370

ISSN

1945-452X

Autores

Antionette Gray, J. H. Trumbull,

Tópico(s)

Botanical Research and Chemistry

Resumo

se trouve dans Pline.Ht'storia, ed.1631, p. 301.Quelques botanistes ont vonlu railiuer en eerivant Pirus.et il en result, ponr une recherche dans nn livre modorne, il faut consultel' I'index dans deux endroits, ou risquer de croire qne les Poiriers ne sont pas dans l'ollvrage.En tOllS cas Ie nom des anciens est un nom vulgaire, mais Ie nom vraimellt botaniqlle est celui de Linne, fondateur de la nomenclature adoptee, et Linne a ecrit Pyrus."Pears and Apples were prehistoric in l~urope, both wild and cllltiva.ted.* Xot Cujete-twless j has tIle Germall sonnd.The Tupi name is formed from cu'i (ceu-in, Lery) 'the shell' or hal'<1 rind of It lint or fmit (and the' bowl' or calabash made from it) and ele 'goarl, preciolls.'t lIf.DeCandolle, p. lD8, citing this passage from Ramusio's Italian translation of Oviedo's Historia Natural.etc., has "zucche" for "calabafa8" of the Spanish original, and takes no notice of what is said of their spontaneous gl'Owth.

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