The common names support these hypotheses. In Europe they offer little interest when they refer to the quality of the root (_radis_), or to some comparison with the turnip (_ravanello_ in Italian, _rabica_ in Spanish, etc.), but the ancient Greeks coined the special name _raphanos_ (easily reared). The Italian word _ramoraccio_ is derived from the Greek _armoracia_, which was used for _R. sativus_ or some allied species. Modern interpreters have erroneously referred this name to _Cochlearia Armoracia_ or horse-radish, which I shall come to presently. Semitic[38] languages have quite different names (_fugla_ in Hebrew, _fuil_, _fidgel_, _figl_, etc., in Arab.). In India, according to Roxburgh,[39] the common name of a variety with an enormous root, as large sometimes as a man’s leg, is _moola_ or _moolee_, in Sanskrit _mooluka_. Lastly, for Cochin-China, China, and Japan, authors give various names which differ very much one from the other. From this diversity a cultivation which ranged from Greece to Japan must be very ancient, but nothing can thence be concluded as to its original home as a spontaneous plant. A totally different opinion exists on the latter point, which we must also examine. Several botanists[40] suspect that _Raphanus sativus_ is simply a particular condition, with enlarged root and non-articulated fruit, of _Raphanus raphanistrum_, a very common plant in the temperate cultivated districts of Europe and Asia, and which is also found in a wild state in sand and light soil near the sea—for instance, at St. Sebastian, in Dalmatia, and at Trebizond.[41] Its usual haunts are in deserted fields; and many common names which signify wild radish, show the affinity of the two plants. I should not insist upon this point if their supposed identity were a mere presumption, but it rests upon experiments and observations which it is important to know.