[1579] Blume, Rumphia, iii. p. 103; Miquel, Fl. Indo-Batava, i. p. 554.
[1580] Bossier, Fl. Orient., ii. p. 5.
[1581] Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. xiii. cap. 15; lib. xv. cap. 22; Galen, De Alimentis, lib. ii. cap. 30.
[1582] Lerche, Nova Acta Acad. Cesareo-Leopold, vol. v., appendix, p. 203, published in 1773. Maximowicz, in a letter of Feb. 24, 1882, tells me that Lerche’s specimen exists in the herbarium of the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh. It is in flower, and resembles the cultivated bean in all points excepting height, which is about half a foot. The label mentions the locality and its wild character without other remarks.
[1583] There are Transcaucasian specimens in the same herbarium, but taller, and they are not said to be wild.
[1584] Marschall Bieberstein, Flora Caucaso-Taurica; C. A. Meyer, Verzeichniss; Hohenacker, Enum. Plant. Talysch; Boissier, Fl. Orient., p. 578, Buhse and Boissier, Plant. Transcaucasiæ.
[1585] Ledebour, Fl. Ross., i. p. 664, quotes de Candolle, Prodromus, ii. p. 354; now Seringe wrote the article Faba in Prodromus, in which the south of the Caspian is indicated, probably on Lerche’s authority.
[1586] Dict. d’Agric., v. p. 512.
[1587] Munby, Catal. Plant. in Alger. sponte nascent., edit. 2, p. 12.
[1588] Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 256; Rohlfs, Kufra.