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of Europe and Asia, and naturalized in the U. S. contains a yellow coloring 

 principle. The seeds of Entada scandens are used in the Samoan Islands in 

 playing games. The Pithecolobium dulce contains a pulpy pod which is 

 eaten. The plant is good fodder. Guava (Ing a vera) is grown as a shade tree 

 and as a substitute for coffee. It is not to be confused with the fruit producing 

 gnava (Psidium guajavd). Important forage plants not previously mentioned 

 are red clover (Trifoliutn pratense), native of Europe and used extensively 

 in northern United States; alsike clover (T. hybridum), white clover (7*. 

 repens), well known as a forage plant and a good honey plant, T. alexandrinum 

 the great forage crop of Egypt, known as the Beresem, Japan clover (Lespedeza 

 stria ta) a well known forage plant of the South, French honeysuckle (Hedy- 

 sarutn coronarium) an ornamental plant, native to Spain, also used as a for- 

 age plant of Europe and Western Asia, Desmodium triflorum used as a forage 

 plant in the tropics, Florida beggar weed (Desmodium tortuosum) of India, 

 alfalfa (Medicago satvua} of Europe and Western Asia, the vetches (Vicia 

 villosa and V. saliva), lupines (Lupinus albus} cultivated for forage pur- 

 poses, besides many valuable native forage plants like the Hosackia Purshiana, 

 the wild pea (Lathyrus venosus) etc. 



Fig. 285. Dyer's Broom {Genista tinctoria). 

 a yellow coloring matter. (After Faguet.) 



Contains 



