666 The American Naturalist. [August, 
Sugar Bean. Maycock, Barb., 1830, 293. 
Lima Bean. McMahon, 1806. 
This bean requires a warm season, and hence. is not grown so 
much in northern and central Europe as in this country. Vil- 
morin '' describes three varieties and names two others. Martens,* 
however, describes five well marked varieties. 
1. The large white Lima is among those figured by Lobel ^" and 
by J. Bauhin/^ and this places its appearance in Europe in 1591, 
and according to Martens it is the Phaseoliis inamcenus L. It 
was in American gardens" in 1828, and probably before. 
2. The potato Lima is a white bean, much thickened and 
rounded as compared with the first. It seems to be fairly figured 
by LobeP'^ in 1591, and to be the Phaseoliis limensis Macfad.^^ 
justly esteemed in Jamaica. 
3. The small xvhite Lima, or Sieva, saba, Carolina, Carolina 
seivee and West Indian, is esteemed on account of its greater 
hardiness over the other varieties. It is also well figured by 
Lobel in 1 591, under the name Phaseoli parvi pallido-albi ex 
America delati. On account of the names, and the hardiness of 
the plant, and as being probably cultivated by the Indians, I am 
disposed to suggest that it may be the Bushel or Sugar bean, 
esteemed very delicate, and of various colors, as white, marbled, 
and green, and grown in Virginian gardens before i8i8.*'* Law- 
son *^ in 1700-8 says : " The Bushel bean, a spontaneous growth, 
very flat, white, and mottled with a purple figure, was trained on 
poles " in the Carolinas. The Sieva, if a synonym of the Bushel 
bean, is the white form, and was in American gardens before 
1806. Vilmorin mentions a variety of the Sieva spotted with 
red. 
4. The speckled Lima has white seeds striped and spotted with 
a deep, dark red. The figures of Lobel, 1591, under Phaseoli 
rtibri, very well represent the cultivated variety, as also a sort sent 
wson. A Voyage to Carolin 
