[1699] Bentham, in Ann. Wiener Museum, vol. ii.; Martens, Die Gartenbohnen, in 4to, Stuttgart, 1860, edit. 2, 1869.
[1700] Savi, Osserv. sopra Phaseolus e Dolichos, 1, 2, 3.
[1701] Theophrastus, Hist., lib. viii. cap. 3; Dioscorides, lib. ii. cap. 130; Pliny, Hist., lib. xviii. cap. 7, 12, interpreted by Fraas, Syn. Fl. Class., p. 52; Lenz, Bot. der Alten, p. 731; Martens, Die Gartenbohnen, p. 1.
[1702] Wittmack, Bot. Vereins Brandenburg, Dec. 19, 1879.
[1703] Delile, Plantes Cultivées en Égypte, p. 14; Piddington, Index.
[1704] Bretschneider does not mention any, either in his pamphlet On the Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works, or in his private letters to me.
[1705] E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanique, iii. p. 404.
[1706] “Faseolus est species leguminis et grani, quod est in quantitate parum minus quam Faba, et in figura est columnare sicut faba, herbaque ejus minor est aliquantulum quam herba Fabæ. Et sunt faseoli multorum colorum, sed quodlibet granorum habet maculam nigram in loco cotyledonis” (Jessen, Alberti Magni, De Vegetabilibus, edit. critica, p. 515).
[1707] P. Crescens, French trans., 1539.
[1708] Macer Floridus, edit. 1485, and Choulant’s commentary, 1832.