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grown for two seasons, and this year there were grown also a number 
of the foreign synonyms of both varieties. In all cases some plants 
with scarlet flowers and black and purple seeds have been found among 
the white varieties, and some plants with white flowers and seeds have 
been found among the scarlet varieties. Two other interesting varia- 
tions have been noticed. The Haricot ad Hspagne rouge, or French 
name for the Scarlet Runner produced some beans in which the black 
color was reduced to a few small angular black spots. The Tiirken- 
bohne, or German name for the Scarle¢ Runner, produced some of the 
brown and white beans of the Painted Lady type. 
It may be remarked in conclusion that the parts of the flower of the 
bean are so arranged that a bee alighting on the lower petuls causes 
the anthers to protrude from the end of the keel, and the pollen thus 
exposed may be easily brushed off by the bee and carried to some other 
flower, and cross-fertilization effected. At various times during the | 
flowering season bumble bees were noticed at work on the bean flowers, 
always entering on the left hand side. 
CLASSIFICATION. 
The different varieties of bean ordinarily grown may be referred to 
seven more or less well marked species belonging to the natural order 
Leguminose. They may be somewhat popularly distinguihed as 
follows : 
1. Phaseolus vulgaris, L.—'The ordinary Kidney beaa, either 
dwarf or running. Leaves trifoliate, leaflets triangular, ovate, more or 
less hairy, flowers axillary, single or in clusters of two or three, white 
running through the various shades to dark purple. Pods of medium 
size, slender, smooth. | 
2. Phaseolus multiflorus, Lam. -— The Scarlet Runner. In many 
respects similar to the last, distinguished by its tuberous roots, tall 
running habit of growth, well developed racemes of scarlet or white 
flowers and large rough pods. The cotyledons do not appear above 
ground in vegetation. 
3. Phaseolus lunatus, L. —The Lima bean, always running, leaflets 
_ narrower, more halberd shape, often mottled in two shades of green, 
smoother than P. vulgaris, flowers white, small, pod very broad, flat, 
leathery, be&ns rather large, with peculiar lines radiating from the 
eye. 
4. Dolichos sesquipedalis.— The Asparagus bean, always running, 
leaflets plainly halberd shaped, nearly smooth, flowers yellow- 
ish purple, very large, pods in pairs, cylindrical, very long, eighteen 
inches or more, beans small, kidney form, very distant in the pod. 
5. Dolichos (sinensis ?)— The Southern Cow Pea, similar to the 
last, but distinguished by its dwarf form and shorter pods with the 
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beans crowded in them. 
6. Vigna (———— ?) — The Chinese bean, dwarf in appearance, re- 
sembling dwarf forms of the Kidney bean, flowers yellow, pods small, 

cylindrical, straight seeds small, hilum* elongated. 
%. Soja hispida, Moench —The Soja bean, not running, eighteen 
inches to two or more feet high, leaflets broadly oval, whole plant in- 
oluding pod covered with rusty brown hairs, flowers axillary,very minute, 
