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Sagard (1G24-5) says that the Hurons called the coarser 

 part of their pounded maize — after the meal had been sifted 

 from it — '• Acointa, c'est a dire Pois (car lis lui donnent le 

 mesrae nom qu'a uos pois) ; " and in his " Dictionnaire 

 Huronne," he has " Pois, Acointa," " FezoUes, Ogaressa ; " 

 whence we infer that French pease [J°. sativum^ were 

 already cultivated by or known to the Hurons. The Abnakis 

 of western Maine, in the 17th century, called pease, " awen- 

 nootsi-minar," i. e. " French (or foreign) seeds." Tanner, 

 1830, gives as the Chippeway name of the " Wild Pea-vine " 

 l^Phaaeolua diversifoUus .^] " Anishemin," i. e. " Indian (or 

 native) seeds." In nearly all North American languages, the 

 names for kidney-beans (Phaseoli) are of earlier formation 

 than those for garden pease. The latter are usually formed 

 on the former : e. g. Chahta, tohi, " bean " ; tohi hullo, [wild] 

 " pea " ; tohi hikint uni, " garden pea " (Byington) ; Dakota, 

 o^mnicha, " bean " ; o^mnicha hmiycfydP' \i. e. " round bean "], 

 " pea." 



Without multiplying citations — we may assume that the 

 " pease " and " poix " which early voyagers found cultivated 

 by the American Indian were species of Phaseolus — not 

 Pisum. 



Five and twenty years before the settlement of Virginia, the 

 Indians of Carolina and Florida had "• fine citroiiilles and 

 very good beans" (Lescarbot, Xouv. France, 778). Lawson, 

 1700-1708, gives a more particular description of the south- 

 ern beans cultivated by the Indians. " The Kidney-beans," he 

 says, " were here before the English came, being very plenti- 

 ful in Indian corn-fields." " The Bushel bean," a sponta- 

 neous growth, very flat, white and mottled with a purple figure, 

 was trained on poles [P. muWflorus ?] : " Indian Bounce val, 

 or Miraculous Pulse, so called from their long pods and great 

 increase ; they are very good, and so are the ' Bonavies, Cala- 

 vancies [= Garvances ?], Nanticokes,' and abundance of 

 other pulse, too tedious to mention, which we found the In- 

 dians possessed of when we settled in America "(Voyage to 

 Carolina, pp. 7G, 77). 



