This plant, which from the edible character of its root, has attracted considerable attention in France, is found in the same neighborhood. It is a vine often ten feet in length, with handsome pinnate leaves, and thick clusters of brick-red, papilionaceous flowers; their fragrance is peculiar, strongly resembling that of fine green tea. (It produces a large number of small oblong tubers, the largest about the size of a dove's egg, strung upon its roots four or five inches apart. As freezing does not injure them, they may be dug in autumn or spring; and at the latter season, the only time I have tried them, much resemble a mealy potato, to which they are superior in flavor. From a vine which has stood in my garden for many years, and covers a small trellis, I dig a few handfuls annually, as a curiosity, and the parent stock remains uninjured. Should it improve by cultivation, as the potato has done, it would rival that important plant, and perhaps may become a useful substitute for it.)