136 DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 
Europe, before the discovery of America. This identification 
may not be impossible, but the space at our sg Si will not 
permit us to attempt it in this article, or even to re-examine 
the authorities on which M. de Candolle sis the probability 
“that the Dolichos of Theophrastus was our pole bean (haricot 
ad rames), and the Fasiolos our cultivated bush bean (Aaricot 
ono i p. 271. At present, we have only to offer one or two 
no 
I The distinction indicated by Galen (de Alimentis, lib. i, 
28), between the Phasiolos (waatodoc), of Dioscorides and 
pea (gdonioc)—presumably the “ vilis faselus” of Vir il 
— if well founded, seems to have been lost sight of in the a 
dle ages. In Italy, the Greek and Latin names Phasiolos, Fas- 
eolus, Faselus, Fasillus, etc., Lame into the modern Fagzuoli. 
Piero de ’ Crescenzi, of Bologna, whose 
season on agriculture was written near 
fe the beginning of the 14th century, in 
Sede Latin, and translated into Italian about 
among panick, millet and chick pease; 
they are also planted i in gardens, among 
cabbages and onions.”* It is not cer- 
tain that the red ‘cd the white were 
of the same species, or genus, or that 
either was a species of Phaseolus L. 
In the first half of the 16th century 
= white Phaseoli were the more com- 
and less esteemed. ate young 
Strasburg, 1531, p. 49. They are Bee unlike the modern 
Phaseolus, the earlier figure in Crescenzi, and each other. Fig. 
* De Agricultura, lib. iii, c, 10 (Italian, Ed. Venice, 1504). The Latin text was 
first printed at Strasburg, in att, and with figures, 1486; the Italian version was 
printed at Florence, 1478, The figure (fig. 1) of Faseolus in the earliest (Latin) 
edition we have ee eke date, rie protably a - Louvain, about 1480, has 
little oo a e Phaseolus o 
M. de lle bool (p. 272) that “ sicchiing of | the 15th century say mp ne 
of Fascolus, or any analogous name,” and that “this is the case with P. Cre: 
sana 7 seeming to a French translation of Crescenzi, printed in 1539, which we 
