502 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



or cream-colored, lens-shaped, three eighths of an inch in 

 diameter, and an eighth of an inch in thickness. The plant 

 is about fifteen inches high. 



It is one of the most productive of all the varieties, though 

 inferior in quality to the Common Lentil. 



One-flowered The stem of this quite distinct species is from 



Lentil. 

 EKVUM MONAN- twelve to fifteen inches high ; the flowers are 



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yellow, stained or spotted with black, and pro- 

 duced one on a fool-stalk ; the pods are oval, smooth, and 

 contain three or four globular, wrinkled, grayish-brown 

 seeds, nearly a fourth of an inch in diameter. 



About five hundred and fifty seeds are contained in an 

 ounce. 



The One-flowered Lentil is inferior to most of the other 

 sorts, but is cultivated to some extent, in France and else- 

 where, both for its seeds and herbage. 



Bed Lentil. Seeds of the size and form of those of the 



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Common Lentil, but of a reddish-brown color ; 

 flowers light red. Its season of maturity is the same with 

 that of the last named. 



Small Lentil. Seeds about an eighth of an inch in diame- 



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ter ; flowers reddish ; and pods often contain- 

 ing two seeds. 



This is the " Lentille petite " of the French, and is the 

 variety mostly sown for green food in France, although its 

 ripe seeds are also used. It is rather late, and grows taller 

 than any of the other sorts, except the Green Lentil. When 

 sown in drills, they should be from ten to fifteen inches apart, 

 and the plants about four or five inches distant in the rows. 



The Lentils are of a close, branching habit of growth, 

 and a single plant will produce a hundred and fifty, and often 

 a much greater number of pods. 





