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me as growing spontaneously in Florida in abandoned Indian 
fields. 
5. The large red I cannot trace; it may be the blood red 
bean Martens received from Texas, Sierra Leone and Batavia. 
It differs from the next but in size. 
6. The sjnall red answers well to the description given of 
Phaseolus rnfiis Jacq. by Martens, iand this put its appearance at 
1770. 
These six varieties, with their synonyms, include all the Lima 
beans with which I am acquainted, but there are a number of 
other sorts described, which sooner or later will appear and be 
claimed as originations. A careful reflection over my list will 
clearly convince that our varieties are all of ancient occurrence, 
and that there have been no originations under culture within 
modern times. A black white-streaked form is recorded in 
Cochin China by Loureiro ; a white black-streaked form is fig- 
ured by Clusius in i6or ; a black as Phaseolus derasits, Schrank, 
in Brazil. The P. bipinciatus]diC(\. hsis not as yet reached our 
seedsmen, although grown at Reunion under the name of pois du 
Cap. Martens describes several others with a yellow band about 
the eye, and variously colored, and one with an orange ground 
and black markings occurs among the beans from the Peruvian 
graves at Ancon at the National Museum. 
The Lima bean is called in India '" the Diiffin or Vellore bean ; 
in Jamaica'*' the Sugar bean, as also in Barbadoes.'" In France, 
Haricot de Lima, f eve Creole ; in Germany, Lima bohuc ; in Italy, 
Fagniolo di Lima; in Spain, Lndia de Lima :^^ in Ce\4on, oorn- 
diimbala}^ 
LOVAGE. Ligustieum levistuum L. 
This plant is yet to be rarely found in gardens. At the present 
day, says Vilmorin, Lovage is almost exclusively used in the 
manufacture of confectionery ; formerly the leaf stalks and bot- 
toms of the stems were eaten, blanched like celery.-*^ The whole 
