ee ae ee a 
i Fo Ae 
GARDEN BEANS CULTIVATED AS ESCULENTS. 93 
thick. Very productive, medium early and of excellent 
quality.— Plate 38, f. 9. 
Kumer.e.* Plant 10-15 in. high, strictly dwarf, very 
bushy. Leaflets small, 23-3 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, often 
Tong ovate, more or less truncate at base. Pods about 3 in. 
long by # in. broad and % in. thick, usually curved a little, 
borne near the ground, hence apt to rot during damp 
weather.— Plate 38, f. 10. 
CHALLENGER.t Identical with the preceding except that 
the pods are 2-3 in. long. 
P. VULGARIS L. 
Phaseolus vulgaris Lobel. Ic. Stirp. 23 59. (1591). —Tournef, Inst. 412. 
(1719). — Linn. Sp. Pl. 723. (1753). —[ed. Willd.] 8s 1030. (1800). — 
Miller, Gard. Dict. (1800). —DC. Prodr. 2 : 392. (1825). — Benth. Fl. 
Bras. 151182. (1859). — Martens, Gartenbohnen 25. (1860). — Bailey 
Cyclop. Am. Hort. 8 : 1296. (1901). 
Phaseolus nanus Linn. Sp. Pl. 1017. (1763). — [ed. Willd.] 3: 1036. (1800). 
Phaseolus compressus DC. Prodr. 2 : 393. (1825).— Martens, Gartenbohnen 
39. (1860). 
Phaseolus oblongus Savi, DC. Prodr. 23393. (1825). — Martens, Garten- 
bohnen 50. (1860). 
Phaseolus saponaceus Savi, DC. Prodr. 2 3393. (1825). 
Phaseolus gonospermus Savi, Martens, l. c. 45. 
Phaseolus carinatus Martens, l. c. 49. 
Phaseolus ellipticus Martens, 1. c. 60. 
Phaseolus sphaericus Martens, 1, .¢. 69. 
Phaseolus albus. Gerarde, Hist. Pl. 1038. (1597). 
Phaseolus niger. Gerarde, 1. c. — Raius, Hist. Pl. 13884. (1686). 
Smilax hortensis sive Phaseolus major. Bauhin. Pinax 339. (1623). 
Smilax hortensis minor. Bauhin. 1. c. 
Smilax siliqua sursum rigente: vel Phaseolus parvus Italicus. Bauhin. 1. c. 
Phaseolus fructu diverso vel parvo & nigro albis venis. Parkinson, Theat. 
1056. (1640). 
Smilax hortensis. Bauhin. Hist. Pl. 22255. (1651). — Raius, Hist. Pl.1s 
884. (1686). 
Phaseolus vulgaris Italicus humilis, seu minor albus cum orbita nigricante. 
Raius, Hist. Pl. 1: 885. (1686). 
Phaseoli tumidi minores nivei. Raius, l. c. 
* Thorburn or Kumerle Dwarf Lima. Bailey, Bull. Cornell Exp. Sta. 
87: 96. (1895). 
+ Thorburn, Cat. (1885). 
