420 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



derasus) in Brazil; the blood-red in Texas;' the dark red with light or orange-ruddy spots 

 in the Bourbon Island; the black, white-streaked in Cochin China; and the large white, 

 the small white or sieva, the red, the white sort striped and speckled with dark red and 

 the green are found in our gardens. In central Africa, but two seeds are ever found in 

 a pod;' in our most improved varieties there are five or even six. The synon^-my is as 

 follows : 



Phaseoli magni late albi. Lob. Icon. 2:60. 1591. 



B. peregrinil. genus alterrun. Clus. //ts/. 2:223. 160. (Seen in 1576.) Fig. 



Phaseolus, lata, striata, sive radiato semine. Bauh. J. 2:267. 1651. Fig. 



P. novi, orbis, latis, totus candidus similaci hortensis afinis. Bauh. J. 2:268. 1651. 

 Fig. Chabr. 137. 1673. Fig. 



Phaseolus lunatus. Linn. Sp. 10 16. 1763. 



P. inamoenus. Linn. Sp. 1016. 1763. 



P. hipunctatus. Jacq. Hort. I, t. 100, ex. Mill. Diet. 



P. rufus. Jacq. Hort. I, 13, t. 34, ex. Mill. Diet. 



P. saccharatus. Macfad. 282. 1837. 



P. puberulus. Kunth. Syw. 6:106. 1825. 



Bushel or Sugar Bean. A Treat. onGard. (1818?). 



Sugar Bean. Maycock Barb. 293. 1830. 



Lima Bean. McMahon 1806. 



This bean requires a warm season and hence is not grown so much in northern and 

 central Europe as in this cotmtry. Vilmorin' describes three varieties and names two 

 others. Martens,* however, describes six well-marked types. 



Types of Lima Beans. 



1. The large, white lima is among those figtired by Lobel ' and by J. Bauhin,' and 

 this places its appearance in Europe in 1591. According to Martens this is the Phaseolus 

 inamoenus Linn. This type was in American gardens ' in 1828 and probably before. 



2. The Potato lima is a white bean, much thickened and rovmded as compared with 

 the first. This type seems to be fairly figured by Lobel,* 1591, and seems to be the 

 Phaseolus limensis Macfad.,' justly esteemed in Jamaica. 



3. The small, white lima, or sieve, Faba, Carolina, Carolina sewee and West Indian, 

 is esteemed on account of its greater hardiness over the other types. It is also well figured 

 by Lobel, 1591, tmder the name Phaseoli parvi pallico-albi ex America delati. On account 

 of the names and the hardiness of the plant and from the fact that it probably was 

 cultivated by the Indians, this may be the bushel or sugar bean, which was esteemed 



' Martens Gartenbohne 96. 1869. 



2 Schweinfurth, G. Heart Ajr. i:2^(). 1874. 



3 Vilmorin Les Pis. Potag. 278. 1883. 

 * Martens Gartenbohne 96. 1869. 



' Lobel Icon. 260. 1591. 



'Bauhin, J. Hist. PI. 2:268. 1651. 



' Fessenden New Amer. Card. 36. 1828. 



' Lobel Icon. 260. 1591. 



Macfadyen, Jam. 280. 837, 



