490 FORAGE PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE 



it has long been cultivated for the pods and seeds, which 

 are used as human food. It is also grown to a small 

 extent in England. 



The plant is an annual with weak stems 12 to 18 inches 

 long ; leaves trifoliolate ; flowers handsome, scarlet ; 

 pods dark colored with wings as broad as the body ; 

 seeds large, ovate, brownish. 



The square-pod pea requires much the same conditions 

 as the field pea, but is not so productive either of herbage 

 or of seed. 



At the California Experiment Station this pea produced 

 on small plots yields of green herbage at the rates of 24 and 

 26 tons to an acre. 



