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mentioned in Turner’s “ Libellus,” 1538, and hence had probably 
not reached England at this time. It has been known in Ameri- 
can gardens from the commencement of the present century, and 
probably earlier. 
The synonymy can be established as below: 
k 
Ocimum exiguum. Fuch., 1542, 547. 
O. minimum amaraci Paea caryophyllata, Adv., 1570, 215; 
Lob. Obs., 1576, 269. 
O. caryophyllatus. Lugd., 1587, 681. 
~ O. minus garyophyllatum. Ger., 1597, 547. 
O. garyophyllatum. Matth., 1598, 407. 
Basilico minore. Cast. Dirinte 1617, 64. 
O. minimum. Bauh., Pin., 1623, 226; J. Bauh., 1651, iii. 247; 
Ray, 1686, i. 541. 
O. mimimum. I, Sp, 833. 
Bush basil. Lyte, 1586; Ger., 1597; Ray, 1686; Burr, 1863. 
Basilic fin, vert and violet. Satins 1883, 33. 
II. 
Ocimum min. caryophyllatum. Hort. Eyst., 1613, Aést. ord., 
7, fol. 10. 
Basilic fin vert compact. Vil., Alb. de Clich., n. 43077. 
Compact Bush-basil. Vil., Veg. Gard., 1885, 19. 
Bush basil is called in India Sofed toolsee ;* in Italy, Basilico 
gentile, Basilico oe 2 in France, Basilic fin; in Spain, 
Albaca menuda, A. fina 
We certainly cannot vi in basil an illustration of great iod 
fications which have been produced by cultivation, nor can we 
suspect that there are any well-marked varieties of modern origi- 
nation. 
: Bean. Phaseolus vulgaris L. z 
When the bean was first known it was an American plant, and 
had a culture extending over nearly the whole of the New World, 
as it finds mention by nearly all the early voyagers and explorers, 
and while the records were not kept sufficiently accurate to jus- 
tify identification in all cases with varieties now known, yet the 
1 Speede, on oe of Gard., 184. 2 Cast. Durante, 1617. 
3 Vilmorin, 
