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No. 38. Express. (Greg.) 
Synonym. “ Lliss Vo. 72,” of Station growing. 
Plant about two feet high; foliage light green, not glaucous ; 
stipules scarcely washed with white ; stem slender, rarely branched ; 
nodes rarely more than four inches apart ; peduncles one-half to two 
and a half inches long; pods single, paler than foliage, straight, very 
blunt at the apex when fully developed, one and a half to two and 
a half inches long, one-half inch wide, very plumply filled; peas 
four to seven in a pod, greenish white, roundish, very slightly flat- 
tened by compression, three-eighths of an inch in diameter; seeds 
very dull whitish green, roundish, slightly indented, one-fourth of 
an inch in diameter, radical very distinct. An ounce contained 126 
seeds. 
Not prolific, very early, maturing its crop rather slowly. 
No. 39. Kentisu Invicra. (Thor. 1882.) 
Synonym. Hast’s Kentish Invicta. (Vil.) 
Plant two and a half to three feet high; foliage slightly glaucous ; 
_ stipules washed with white; stem sometimes branched at the base, 
rarely above ; nodes rarely more than three inches apart; peduncles 
one to two (rarely three) inches long; pods slightly paler than the 
foliage, usually single, two to two and a half inches Jong, one-half of 
an inch wide, blunt at the apex when fully developed; peas four to | 
six in a pod, whitish green, scarcely compressed, three-eighths of an 
inch in diameter; seeds dull green, shading in some specimens to 
cream color, nearly round, smooth, about five-sixteenths of an inch 
in diameter, radical distinct. An ounce contained 122 seeds. 
Rather prolific, very early, maturing its crop gradually. 
-New in England in 1870. (Gar. Chron.) 
No. 40. Prizk Taxer. (Hen. 1882.) 
Synonyms. Prizetaker, Green Marrow, Bellamy’s Early Green 
Marrow, Leicester Defiance, Rising Sun (Vil.); LVoble’s Green 
Marrow, Beck?s Prizetaker. (Gar, Chron.) | 
Plant three to five feet high; leaflets and stipules rather large, 
stipules slightly glaucous, washed with white;. stem slender or 
medium, sometimes branched at the base and above; nodes rarely 
more than four inches apart; peduncles one to three and a half 
inches long; pods same color as the foliage, usually single, two and 
a half to three inches long, five-eighths of an inch wide, very blunt at 
the apex when fully developed ; peas five to eight, rarely eleven in a 
pod, pale green, much compressed when full grown, flattened, 
nearly one-half of an inch in longest diameter; seeds dull yellowish 
green, shading in specimens to cream color, nearly round, about 
five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, radical rather distinct. An 
ounce contamed 117 seeds. 
Very prolific, medium in season, the pods maturing very gradually. 
Known in England prior to 1850. (Gar. Chron.) 
S§ Pods more or less recurved. 
