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LEGUMINOSiE. CLXVII. Cicer. CLXVIII. Faba, 



toothed; calyx very gibbous at tbe base, with the segments 

 shorter than the wings of the corolla. O. H. Native of Son- 

 garia and Persia'. The flowers and the fruit are almost twice 

 tlie size of those of C arietinum. 



Songarian Chick-pea. PI. 1 foot. 



valuable. These two sorts are very apt to degenerate if the 

 seeds are not saved w^ith great care. • 



8 Windsor-hean. Tliis is allowed to he the best of all the 



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sorts for the table. When sown on a good soil, having plenty of 



) 



and when gathered 



young 

 This sort 



duncles elongated, l-flowered; leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets, 

 lower ones obovate, middle ones oblong, upper ones linear. 



•0. H. Native of Europe. 



Solon Chick-pea. PI. 1 foot. 



4 C ? NUMMXJLARiroLiuM (Lam. diet. 2. p. 2.) stem filiform, It is dwarf 6 or 10 inches high, with branches spreading like a 

 slender ; leaves simple, obovate, entire, hairy ; peduncles 2-3- fan, and flowers succeeded by small pods, both in clusters. 



roots, the beans will be very large, 



they are the sweetest and best tasted of all the sorts. 



is seldom sown before Christmas, because it is found not to bear 



the frost so well as many other sorts ; so it is generally sown for 



the principal crop to come in in June and July. • 



9 Fan or cluster-bean. This sort is chiefly sown for curiosity. 



flowered ; calycine segments obtuse ; legumes cordate. ©. H. 

 Native of the East Indies. — Pluk. aim. t. 389. This plant 

 ought to be perhaps excluded from the present tribe. 



il/unc?/-n'or/-/t'ai?e(/ Chick-pea. PI. prostrate. 



Cult. The seeds of these plants require only to be sown in 

 the open ground in the spring. 



CLXVIII. FA'BA (from ^ayw, phago^ to eat ; the esculent 

 seeds of the common bean are well known). Tourn. inst. t. 222. 

 D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 598. prod. 2. p» 354. — Vicia species of Lin. 

 and others. 



Lin. syst. Diadelphiay DecAndria. The character o£ Faba is 

 nearly the same as that of Ftcia^ but differs principally in the 

 great size of the legume, which is coriaceous, and rather tumid, 

 and in the seeds being oblong, not round, and in the hylum being 

 terminal, not lateral. — Erect plants, with abruptly-pinnate leaves 

 with or without a simple temlril. 



10 Long-podded-bean. A very tall kind, and a good bearer; 

 the pods long and narrow, closely filled with oblong middle-sized 

 seeds. Of tliis there are several subordinate varieties, as the 



early Turkei/t &c. 



11 White blossomed-bean. 



The flowers are pure white, Kav 



The seeds 



are 

 flavour 



ing none of the black marks on the wings, 

 semi-transparent, and have less of the peculiar bean 

 when young than any of the others, and are by some personi 

 esteemed on that account. It bears abundance of smallish, long, 

 narrow pods, and the seeds are almost black when ripe. 



12 Red-blossomed-bean. This is a very shewy plant; tlic 

 blossoms very red, without any mixture of white. It hears 

 smallish pods and seeds, which are not very palatable, and Ine 

 plant is therefore only grown for curiosity. 



There are a number of other varieties of the garden-hcah, such 

 as the green-nonpareil^ Munford^ &c,, but they are hardly worth 

 notice. 



1 F. vulga'ris (Moench. meth. p. 130.) leaves thick, with 2-5 The following varieties of the jield or horse-bean are worth 



broad, oval, mucronate leaflets ; stipulas semi-sagittate, oval ; 



cultivating. 



tendrils of leaves almost wanting ; teeth of calyx almost linear. Var. j3, equina ; the common horse-bean^ from which pernaps 



all the varieties have originated. 



1 Common f eld or horse-bean. This is the kind most com 



©. H. Said to be found wild on the confines of Persia, not far 

 from the Caspian Sea, and is now cultivated to a great extent in 

 gardens and fields, for the sake of its seeds. Vicia Faba, Lin. 

 spec. 1039. Flowers white, with a blackish-blue silky spot in the 

 middle of the wings. The legumes almost terete, or flat, 

 green or black. Seeds more or less roundish, or very broad and There are several, subordinate varieties of this kind, 



flat, varying much in size. 



Var. a, hortensis ; seeds flat, white, usually large. There are 

 the following varieties of the garden bean- 



1 Mazagan-hean. An excellent early bean. It was brought 

 from a Portuguese settlement just without the straits of Gibraltar. 

 The seeds of this are even smaller than the horse-bean. If the 

 seeds of this sort are sown in October under a warm hedge, pale, 

 or wall, and carefully earthed up when the pLmts are advanced, 

 they will be fit for the table by the middle of May. 



2 Early Portugal or Lisbon-bean. This appears to be the 

 Ma:::agan sort saved in Portugal. It is the kind used by gar- 

 deners for their first crop, but it is not so well tasted as the Ma- 



monly sown for agricultural purposes. , 



2 Tick-bean. This is lower in stature than the former, bj 

 is a more plentiful bearer, and succeeds better on hgnt iar • 

 There are several subordinate varieties of this kind, such as 

 Flat- Ticks or May-beans, Small or Essex Ticks, ani Frencn 

 Ticks. . Some of the garden-beans are taken into field culture 

 in Kent, as the Toker, Windsor, Long-iyodded, Spanish or 

 bori, and the Mazagan-bean ; besides others cultivated on y 

 small quantities for supplying the London seedsmen. 



* Garden beans, their culture and uses. 



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Maza^an is one of the hardiest an^ 



The 



best flavoured of the small and early sorts. 

 in point of earliness and fruitfulness. The dwarf-fan ^^.^^i^*^^ 

 bean is likewise an early variety, but it is planted ch»eny 

 curiosity. The Sandwich-bean has been long noted for its iru 

 zagan; therefore when the 71/rt;:a^a«-6ean can be procured no fulness. The Toker and the broad-Spanish are ^'^^^ ;, 



' bearers. Of all the large kinds, however, the Windsor-hean 



one would think of sowing this sort. 



3 Small Spanish-bean. This will come in well for the second 

 crop, soon after the Portugal, and as it is rather a sweeter bean, 

 it should be preferred to it. 



4 Broad Spanish-bean. This is a little later than the last Windsor 



preferred for the table. When gathered young, the seeu ^^ 



sweet and very agreeable. There are several 'S^^'^^^^^^L.'i- 

 the Windsor^bean. such as the Kentish- Windsor and Taw^ 



and 



sort, and being a good bearer is therefore frequently sown. 



5 Sandwich-bean. This comes in soon after the broad-Spa- 

 niiih^ and is almost as large as the Windsor-bean, but being 

 hardier is commonly sown a month sooner. It is a plentiful 

 bearer, but not a very delicate sort for the table. 



6 Tokcr-bean. Is ready for use about the same time as the 

 Sandwich, and is a great bearer, but rather a coarse bean. 



- 7 White and black-blossomed beans are by some persons much 

 esteemed ; the seeds of the former when boiled are almost as 

 green as peas ; and being a tolerably sweet sort renders it more 



great nearer, mis sort is now very much cultivate;"* 2 (^e 

 are several sub-varieties of it, as the early, the large, an .^ 

 sword-long-pod. The nhite-blossomed-bean, so called |>^^^" ^ 

 is destitute of the black mark on the wings of the ^^^^^^^.j^^j, 

 conspicuous in other kinds. The seed is transparent, ana y* 

 young has little of the peculiar bean flavour, and is on 

 account much esteemed 5 it is at the same time a gi'^^f • jle' 



and nrnnpr for n lat*» r*rnn. T>p]aiinAv in T.*^ Ron Jardinietr O 



proper 

 ibes 

 calls 



tivatea aoout x"*-» 



It is a late sort, but verj 



