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of the plant; and second according to the color of the flowers and 
seeds. 
Analyticel Key. 
Crass A. Plant tall, exceeding four feet in height under average 
conditions. 
* Seeds cream-colored. Three varieties described, Nos. 81-83, 
inclusive. Type, Tall. Edible Podded. . 
** Seeds dark colored or mottled, flowers colored. Two varieties 
described, Nos. 84-85. Type, Giant. Edible Podded. 
Crass B. Plant Half Dwarf, two to four feet high under average 
conditions. 
* Seeds cream-colored. Three varieties described, Nos. 86-88, 
inclusive. Type, Dwarf White. Edible Podded. | 
** Seeds dark colored or mottled, flowers colored. One variety 
described, No. 89. Dwarf Gray. Edible Podded. 
Crass C. Dwarf. Plant not exceeding two feet in height under 
| _ average conditions. 
* Seeds cream-colored. Jour varieties described, Nos. 90-93, 
inclusive. Type, Dwarf Royal. Edible Podded 
DrscrRIPTION OF THE VARIETIES OF P.* MacrocARPON. 
Crass A. Plant tall, exceeding four feet in height under average 
conditions. 
* Seeds cream-colored. 
No. 81. Large Warire Eprsie Poppep. ( Vil.) 
Synonym. Large White Podded Sugar. 
Plant three to tive feet high; foliage light-green ; leaflets and sti- 
pules often very large, more or less washed with white; stem very 
large, often one-fourth of an inch in diameter ; sometimes branched 
at the base, often above; nodes sometimes five inches or more apart ; 
peduneles one-half inch to two inches long; pods remarkably light- 
colored, single, bent and contorted, sometimes inflated, but usually 
closely pressed about the peas, three to five inches long, about one 
inch wide, rounding more or less gradually to the apex, tender«and 
crisp, but less sweet than in some other varieties ; peas five to six in 
a pod, greenish-yellow, slightly flattened by pressure from the pod, 
but not compressed, nearly half an inch in longest diameter; seeds 
dull cream-color, slightly oblong, very smooth, nearly three-eighths 
of an inch in longest diameter, radical distinct. An ounce contained 
eighty-six seeds. | 
Not very prolific, medium in season, maturing its crop promptly. 
No. 82. Wrinkiep Eprste Poppep. (Thor. 1882.) 
Synonym. Wrinkled Sugar. 
Plant five feet or more in height ; foliage abundant, not glaucous ; 
stipwes slightly washed with white ; stem strong, much branched at 
the base and above; nodes ‘sometimes five inches apart; peduncles 
two to four inches long ; pods paler than the foliage, often in pairs, 
two to four inches long, about one-half inch wide, rather blunt at 
