LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



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through the year on which the people are expected to 

 subsist upon pulse with the addition of vegetable oils. 

 The use of haricots and lentils is therefore but little 

 known in this country. 



Chick Pea Cicer arietinum. 



The CHICKPEA Cicer arieiinum is another 

 small legume which is occasionally cultivated in the 

 south of .Europe, especially in Spain, where it is used 

 as a dyeing ingredient as well as an article of food. 

 It is known there, and on the opposite coast of the Me- 

 diterranean, by the name of garavance or garvanzos. 

 These seeds do not, like most other pulse, become of 

 a soft and pulpy consistence by boiling, and therefore 

 they never constitute a dish by themselves, but are 



