DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 137 
3 may have originally been intended for a Teasel (Dipsacus 
sylvestris) the Virga pastoris of the herbalists. Calepin’s Dic- 
tionary (ed. 1616) says, s. v. Faseolus, that the name Fasilli is 
now given by the common people, to “a species of Cicercula.” 
strongly suggestive of Dolichos than of any known variety of 
P. vulgaris: e. g., Dolichos unguiculatus L. (French, D. Mongette, 
nette, Haricot cornille\—not mentioned by M. de Candolle, 
but much cultivated in Italy, and of which there are a great 
number of varieties—which has seeds “marked by a prominent 
black spot, about the umbilicus.” : 
2. M. de Candolle (p. 272), with a reference to Delile and to 
P iddington’s Index, remarks that though ‘no Hebrew name 
Corresponding to the Dolichos or Phaseolus of the botanists ” is 
hown, yet ‘a name less ancient, because it is Arabic, namely 
Loubia, is found in Egypt for the Dolichos Lubia; and in 
.* “ Vulgares Phaseoli, quibus passim in cibis vescimur, dum satis in_campis 
virent, non repant,” etc., Matth. Apologia adv, Amathum, 1559, p. 33; “ Vulgaris 
usus Phaseolus.” /bid. 31. 
a 4 1598, p. 341. In the earlier we oo —_ p. 264), 
gured as a low, bushy — spreading, ~ not tw spa Fagiuolo 
n-Andrieux et 
~ 
{Several other species of Dolichos (e. g., D. sesquipedalis 1... 
Fg "agwo, Engl. Asparagus bean) are similarly marked. Vilmori t 
Foes Plantes Potagires, 1883, p. 280. Other names for this species are: 
‘m. Ostindische Riesel-Spargel Bohne, Nagelische Fasel; /fal. Fagiuolo dell 
occhio ; Span, Garrubia, Moncheta, Judia de Careta,” 
