SAINFOIN 



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The pod is winged and crested, spiny, and may be dispersed by aid 

 of the wind or animals, or merely by dehiscence or falling when ripe. 

 Sainfoin is a chalk plant indulging in a lime soil, and found also on 



SAINFOIN (Onobrychis vicia-folia, Scop.) 



Photo. H. Irving 



oolitic rock soils, or where fodder has been grown, where it may, 

 when on cold clay soil, &c., persist for a short period. 



The fungi, Rhytisma onobrychidis, Ramularia onobrychidis, Sainfoin 

 leaf-spot, infest it, and it is galled by Cecidomyia onobrychidis-, whilst a 

 beetle, Bruchus canus, also lives on it. 



