LEGUMINOS#. . 485 
Fat : 4°92 
Nitrogen free extractive 27°60 
Cellulose......... spsdy ey ADS 
‘Ash 4°04 
In dry substance. | 
Nitrogen 6°71 
Carbo-hydrates 31°68 
Three alkaloids have been separated from the different kinds 
of lupine seed, luzinine, C?'H*°N2%02, which is crystallizable, 
__luzanine C'S H*5N2O, and lupulidine, C®8H'®N, a liquid. 
_ According to Paulus and Hiller the total quantity of alkaloids 
found in different kinds of seed ranges from 0:04 to 0°81 per — 
—cent.; yellow lupines contain from 0°65 to 0°81 per cent. of 
luzinine and lupulidine. A ae a 
_ Hayen found in blue lupines only luzanine. Lupine seeds 
~ contain only traces of amides or acid amides, none of which 
have been isolated, but when the seeds are allowed to germi- 
; nate, a number of these bodies, viz:, asparagin, phenyl-amido- 
_ propionic acid, amido-valerianic acid, leucine, tyrosin, zanthine, ' 
_hypozanthine, lecithine; peptone, arginine (C°H'*N*0%), and 
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choline, make their appearance. Lupinin, 07°H?%01, the 
glucoside of lupines, was discovered by Schulze and Barbieri ; it 
_ erystallizes in fine needles, and dissolves in alkaline solutions 
4 communicating to them a yellow colour, with acids it breaks 
5 up into lupigenin (C'7H120'% and glucose. 
MM. Campini and Grimaldi (Chem. Teepert. 1888, 76,) re- = 
port that they have isolated vanillin from the seeds of Lupinus . oO 
albus, and proved its identity by the crystalline form and by its 
chemical properties. — . 
Vicia Faba, Linn—The field beau (2ng.), Féve des 
champs (F’r.), Bakila (Pers., Ind.)s is & native of Pi er el 
now universally cultivated. For an interesting OL ea Be | 
_ mythology of the bean and 1ts phallic properties, See wee ihote. 
_-natis, (Myth. des Plantes ti., 182—187.)- Pliny men “ 
use as a food and as a medicine (18, 30 ; 22, 69). 
Pi ail ete Ol a ea ke “cage se 
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