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one-third their weight of animo-vegetable matter and 

 other constituents, of which nitrogen is a component, 

 will not vegetate healthily a second season. 



Carolina, Rice. 



Water 5.00 



Starch 85.07 



Parenchyma 4.80 



Gluten 3.60 



Uncrystallizable sugar . . . 0.29 

 Grummy matter, approaching 



starch 0.71 



Oil 0.13 



Phosphate of lime . . . . 0.13 



99.73^ 

 Kidney Beans. 



Skins 288 



Starchy fibrous matter . . . 425 



Starch 1380 



Animo-vegetable matter . . . 799 



Extractive 131 



Albumen and vegeto-animal mat- 

 ter 52 



Mucilage 744 



Loss SI 



3840 b 



* M. Braconnot, in Ann. de Chym. iv. 370. 

 '' Einhof in Gehlen's Journ. vi. 545. 



