Note 265 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

Vicia Faba, Willd., of which the Windsor bean is a variety. The author compares it, at p. 56, with kidney-beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, L.), called Indian beans by the first settlers, who had them from the savages, to the advantage of the last-mentioned sort; which probably soon drove the other out of our gardens.—Compare Cobbett’s American Gardener, p. 105.