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VICIA FABA L. 
Faba vulgaris Tragus, Stirp. 617,618. (1552).— DC. Prodr. 2 : 354. (1825). 
Vicia Faba Linn. Sp. Pl. 737. (1753). — Thunb. Fl. Jap. 284. (1784).— 
Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 443. (1790). — 540. [ed. Willd. ]. (1793). — Linn. 
Sp. Pl. $: 1111. [ed. Willd.]. (1800). — Nicholson, Gard. Dict. 
Faba. Fuchs. Pl. Hist. 388, 389. (1578).— Bauhin. Pinax 338. (1623). — 
Raius, Hist. Pl. 13909. (1668).—Tournef. Inst. 391. [t. 272.]. 
(1719). — Miller, Gard. Dict. (1731). 
Phaseolus sativus. Dodoens, Hist. Pl. 472. [Lyte Transl.]. (1578). 
Faba major hortensis. Gerarde, Herb. 10386. (1597). 
Faba graeca. Matth. Opera 326. (1598). 
Bona seu Phaseolus major. Dodoens, Stirp. Hist. Pempt. 513. (1616). 
Faba compressa major, seu hortensis recentiorum alba & rubra. Mor- 
ison, Hist. Oxon. 2:85. (1680). 
Faba major or major hortensis. Blackwell, Herb. 1¢ [¢. 79]. (1787). 
Faba major. Weinman. Phyt. Ic. 23 435. [t. 500]. (1739). 
Plant an annual; stem quadrangular, striate, 1-5 ft. 
high, few branched, often blotched with dark purple. 
Leaves rather crowded along the stem and branches; leaf- 
lets 3-6, ovate, oblong or elliptical, mucronate, 2—3 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, smooth, glabrous or slightly tomentose, 
nearly sessile. Flowers axillary, clustered, white, blotched 
with dark purple and red, in one variety white. Pods 
nearly erect or often curved or bent by their own weight, 
3-7 in. long, $—} in. thick, woolly within. Seed variable, 
flattened to oblong. — Plate 47. 
VARIETIES OF VICIA FABA. 
Seed small, §-;% in. long, 4-§ in. wide, nearly as thick; stem 3-5 ft. high. 
Specimens of the July bean no larger than these often occur. Hors, 
Seed a little larger, 4-3 in. long, ;4-4 in. broad, much flattened; plants 
dwarf, 1-5 ft. high. 
Mature pods erect or spreading. SMALL Pops. 
Plants very dwarf, 12-15 in. high. 
Fresh ripe seed without greenish tinge. Fan, 
Fresh ripe seed with greenish tinge. GEM. 
Plants taller than last. 
Fresh ripe seed dark red. JULY. 
Greenish red. GREEN JULY. 
Light or whitish red. EarLy MAzZaGan. 
Purplish or violet. VIOLET.- 
