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the seeds white, the sides and concavity marked with spots so. 
as to resemble a common soap-ball. 
Gerarde,? 1597, does not mention this bean in England, but it 
is mentioned by Miller,? in 1724, in varieties which can be iden- 
tified with those grown at the present time, five in all. In 1765, 
Stevenson’ names seven varieties ; in 1778, Mawe+ names eleven. 
In 1883, Vilmorin5 describes sixty-nine varieties and names 
others. 
Phaseolus vulgaris L. 
Pole beans are figured by Tragus® in 1552, who speaks of 
them as having lately come into Germany from Italy, and he 
calls them we/sch or foreign, and he enumerates the various 
colors, as red, purplish white, variegated, white, black, and yel- 
lowish. Dodonzus7? in 1 566 and 1616 figures the pole bean, as 
does Lobel? in 1576 and 1591, Clusius? in 1601, and Castor 
Durante” in 1617. In 1597, Gerarde™ figures four varieties in 
England, the white, black, red, and yellow, and Barnaby Googe” 
speaks of French beans in 1572, indicating by the name the 
source from which they came. In 1683, Worlidge*3 names two 
sorts as grown in English gardens, and the same varieties are 
given by Mortimer* in 1708. In France, in 1829, nineteen sorts 
are enumerated by Noisette," and in 1883, Vilmorin * describes 
thirty-eight varieties and names others. 
_ The bean is called in England kidney bean, Turner, 1551, 
Vilm., 1883; French bean, Vil., 1883; sperage bean, Ger., 1597, 
Googe, 1572; faselles, long peason, garden smilax, Romane beans, 
Lyte, 1586; in Denmark, havebonnen, Vilm., 1883; in Flanders, 
boon, Vilm., 1883; in France, febues, Cartier, 1536, fasiolis, Pin., 
1561, haricot, Quint., 1693, Vilm., 1883, phaseole, Vilm., 1883; 
_ in Germany, welsch Bonen, Fuch., 1542, Bohne, Vilm., 1883; in 
Greece, fasoulia, De C., 1883; in Holland, oon, Vilm., 1883; in 
* Gerarde, Herbal, 1597, 1038. ? Miller’s Dict., 1807. 
3 Stev Gard. Kal., 1765, 66. 4 Mawe, Gard., 1778. 
5 Vilmorin, Les. Pl. Pot., 250. 6 Tragus, l. c. 
7I onæus, l. e. 8 Lobel, Obs., 1576, 511; ic., 1591, ii. 60. 
-. 9Clusius, Hist., 1601, ii, 222. 1° Castor Durante, Herb., 1617. 
= Gerarde, Herbal, 1597, 1038. ™ Gard. Chron., 1864, 1181. 
*3 J. W. Gent., Systema-Hort., 1683, 197. 
"4 Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, 1708, 456; quoted from Gard, Chron., 
