Tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain.
1Scarlet runners ( Phaseolus multiflorus) grew well, and flowered abundantly, but never produced a single pod.
2With Phaseolus multiflorus the tip was hardly sensitive to small squares of attached card, but was sensitive to caustic and to slicing.
3Lastly, the tips of several radicles of Vicia faba and Phaseolus multiflorus were thickly coated with grease for a length of 3 mm.
4Phaseolus multiflorus: tracks left on inclined smoked glass-plates by tips of radicles in growing downwards.
5Phaseolus multiflorus-crossedand self-fertilisedplants, left uncovered in the greenhouse, produced seeds in number (about): 100.
6Phaseolus multiflorus.-Eightradicles, serving as controls, were extended horizontally, some in damp friable peat and some in damp air.
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