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white and chocolate brown, solid chocolate brown along the 
edges, one or both ends much flattened. Slight resem- 
blance to corn. Said to be planted in hills of corn, the 
stalks of the latter being used as poles. Moderately pro- 
ductive.— Plate 39, f. 14. 
Gotpen Wax.* Plant 8-10 in. high, strictly dwarf. 
Leafiets 21-3 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, thick, rough, scarcely 
wrinkled. Blossoms white. Pods yellow, 3-4 in. long, 
1_3 in. thick, slightly curved; spur stout, curved, + in. 
long. Seed 3-} in. long, {-% in. broad, nearly as thick, 
white, blotched with shades of purplish brown on ventral 
surface and afew scattered spots. A very popular sort.— 
Plate 39, f. 15. 
aaa. Seed longer than the preceding but not more than twice 
as long as broad. 
t One color. 
* White. 
InresTIn.t Plant climbing 5-6 ft., vigorous. Leaflets 
3-31 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, deep green, thin, a little 
wrinkled. Blossoms white. Pods green, turning to yellow 
quite late, 3-4 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, usually greater in 
thickness; spur slender, slightly curved, 4 in. long. Seed 
an ivory white, }—3 in. long, +-;°, in. broad, nearly as thick, 
dented or compressed at one side of hilum, pushing the latter 
to the opposite side. Quite late, but of good quality. — 
Plate 39, f. 16. 
Wuitk VALENTINE.{ Identical with the preceding except 
that the plant is strictly dwarf, 8-10 in. high, and outer 
skin of seed has tendency to wrinkle. Introduced about 
1870.—Plate 39, f. 17. 
* Thorburn, Cat. (1884). Buschbohne, Comet Wachs. Haage & Sch. 
Haupt-Verz. (1898). 
Phaseolus sphaericus dimidiatus Martens, Gartenbohnen 76. (1860). 
Field Columbian Museum, seeds, No. 1787, Japan. 
+ Broad Pod. Vilmorin-And. Veg. Gard. 56. (1885).— Haricot in- 
testin. Vilmorin-And. Pl. Pot. 263. (1883). 
+ Thorburn, Cat. (1877).—[Wing], Rept. N. Y. Exp. Sta. 22252. (1883). 
