DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 135 
(Hayden’s Vocab., 1862) and Monchka. In the Chippeway, the 
kidney-bean has received—probably from some local variety— 
a different name: Miskodissimin, i.e. ‘red-dyed seed (or fruit) ;” 
and this name, modified as M’skochi-tha, was used by the 
Shawanoes of Ohio. 
To return to New England, Josselyn, who was in this 
country, 1638-9, and again, 1663-71, in his catalogue of 
“plants proper to the country, names “ Indian Beans, falsely 
called French beans :” “the herbalists call them kidney-beans, 
from their shape and effects... . They are variegated much [in 
size and colour]; besides your Bonivis and Calavances, and the 
kidney-bean that is proper to Roanoke: but these are brought 
into the country: the others are natural to the climate” (N. E. 
Rarities, p. 56; Voyages, p. 73-4). Here is reference to at least 
two species of American beans, one “ proper to New England,” 
the other from Roanoke— erhaps P. multiflorus. — 
Besides the names already mentioned—Ménasquisset, with its 
variants—there is another, in northern Algonkin languages, for 
kidney-beans, which must have originally belonged to some 
high-twining variety. Eliot used it, in the plural, for beans ” 
in 2 Samuel, xvii. 28, tupptihquam-ash — which literally signifies 
‘twiners ;’ and Rasles (1691-1700) gave, in the Kennebec-A bnaki 
of Maine, for “ faséole, a‘teba’kwé—from the same root. A 
modern Abnaki vocabulary shows that this name is still in use 
—as “ad-ba-kwa.” 
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: lian species, 
dispersed by cultivation, and perhaps long ago naturalized, 
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Uncertain, mixed with many other species, all of which are 
American ” (p. 275). 2 
‘he proof that P. vulgaris (and P. nanus), in varieties almost 
