DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 133 
Diction., ed. 1616), a short kind of vetches. The confusion of 
names is frequent in writers of the 16th and first half of the 
17th centuries, in French, as well as English and Spanish. 
Sagard (1624-5) says that the Hurons called the coarser part 
of their pounded maize—after the meal had been sifted from 
it—“Acointa, c’est 4 dire Pois (car ils lui donnent le mesme 
nom qu’a nos pois); and in his Dictionnaire Huronne, he has 
“ Pois, Acointa,” “Fezolles, Ogaressa ;’ whence we infer that 
French pease [P. sativum] were already cultivated by or known 
to the Hurons. The Abnakis of western Maine, in the 17th 
century, called pease, awennootst-minar, i.e. “ French (or foreign) 
seeds.” Tanner, 1830, gives as the Chippeway name of the 
“Wild pea vine” [Phaseolus diversifolius?] Anishemin, i. e. 
‘Indian (or, native) seeds.’ In nearly all North American lan- 
guages, the names for kidney-beans (Phaseolv) are of earlier 
formation than those for garden pease. The latter are usually 
formed on the former: e. g. Chahta, tobi, bean; tobi hullo, [wild] 
pea; tobi hikint ini, garden pea (Byington): Dakota, o”mnicha, 
ean; o”mnicha hmiya”ya” [i. e. ‘round bean ‘J, 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. 
good, and so are the Bonavies, Calavancies [ = Garvances ?], 
Nanticokes, and abundance of other pulse, too tedious too men- 
