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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 781 Of Potatoes of Virginia... Virginia Potatoes hath many hollowe flexible branches, trailing vppon the grounde, three square, vneuen, knotted or kneed in sundry places... The roote is thicke, fat, and tuberous; not much differing either in shape, colour or taste from the common Potatoes, sauing that the rootes hereof are..some of them round as a ball, some ouall or egge fashion..: which knobbie rootes are fastened vnto the stalkes with an infinite number of threddie strings.

1599 J. Gerard Catal. Arborum (rev. ed.) 15 Papus orbiculatus, Bastard Potatoes. Papus Hispanorum, Spanish Potatoes. [Catal. 1596 C 2/1 had only the Latin names].

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 516 Potatoes of Virginia, which some foolishly call the Apples of youth..the flowers..somewhat like the flower of Tobacco for the forme..small round fruit, as bigge as a Damson or Bulleis, greene at the first,..like vnto Nightshade.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Potatoes, a sort of fruit, coming originally from the West Indies, but now common in English Gardens, whose Root is of great vertue, to comfort and strengthen the Body.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) 469 Potatoes are planted in several parts of our Country,..being easily encreased by cutting the Roots into several pieces, each piece growing as well as the whole Root.

1715 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 272 Virginia Potatoes... We are obliged to..Caspar Bauhine for a most accurate Figure..of this..Root... It was first cultivated in Ireland, and now about London, and in many Counties of Great Britain.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 207 Potatoe is of this genus [sc. Solanum], as you will be convinced, if you compare the structure of the flower, with that of the other species.

1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 128 The potato is found wild in several parts of America,..among others in Chili and Peru.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 10 In 1728 Marshal Stair introduced the culture of the potatoe into Wigtownshire.

1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi viii. 250 This ‘crucifer strain’ is less active than the ‘solanum’ one in attacking potato or tomato.

1980 Science 4 Apr. 18/2 The so-called potato comprises a diverse group of more than 160 Solanum species that bear tubers (modified stems), but the commmercial version belongs to a single subspecies, S. tuberosum ssp. tuberosum.

1995 New Scientist 23 Dec. 17/1 The peach potato aphid..is already a major agricultural pest, feeding on the sap of crop plants including potatoes, oilseed rape and sugar beet.

2003 Agric. Syst. 76 899 For example, cultivated potato species such as S. ajanhuiri and S. curtilobum incur damage at −3° to −5° C.