217 



0edpsarum onohrychis, Sainfoin, or Cock's-head. 



Genei 

 Specifi 



■ic character: Keel transversely obtuse; legume jointea, with one seed in eacli joint. 



calyx; stem elongated. 



Oi,,.- Stems round, striated, at first procumbent, in flower ascending. Stipules in pairs, 

 al-lanceolate, terminated by along point with membranaceous edges, sometimes fringed 



OY 



Wl 



ith afew hairs. Leafets eight or ten pairs, rather distant, and an odd one; lower clip deal, 

 upper lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, all with projecting points at the end; young ones 

 with the mid-rib beneath, and the margins fringed with hairs. Legume hemispherical, 

 compressed with wrinkled prominences. Wood. MSS.; E. Bot. t. 96; F. Rust. t. 47- 

 Huds, 322; Jacquin. t. 352; Park. Theat. 1082, 1, Caput galUnaceum. 



Native of Britain. Root perennial. 



Bsperiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from a poor siliceous sandy soil, is. 



dr. qr. 



25 

 50 



Grass, 10 oz. The produce per acre 

 80clr. of grass weigh, when dry -, 



The produce of the space, ditto 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter ' - 

 The produce of the space, ditto 



oz. 



lbs. 



108900 



6806 4 



34031 4 



2126 15 4 



4679 4 12 



3 



-72 



5104 11 



319 11 



At the time the seed is ripe, the produce from a rich clayey loam, is. 



Grass, 13 oz. The produce per acre 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 



The produce of the space, ditto 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



141570 



8848 2 



32 

 83 Of 



c: 



56628 



3539 4 



5308 14 



The produce of the space, ditto 



2 2 

 8 0^ 



5530 



345 10 



The produce of Sainfoin on a clayey [oam with a sandy subsoil, is greater than on a silice- 

 ous sandy soil incumbent on clay; but the nutritive powers of the herbage produced on the 

 ^andy soil is greater. 



The nutritive matter afforded by Sainfoin from a given space of a clayey loam, is - - 



The nutritive matter afforded by the Broad-leaved Clover from an equal space of the same soil, is 

 Ine nutritive matter afforded by Sainfoin from a sihceous sandy soil, is - - " " 



Tile superior value of Sainfoin for soils on a porous or dry subsoil, is therefore manifest. 



Sainfoin grows wild in all the chalky districts in England; but it was first introduced to Eng- 

 ''^^li Farrners as a plant for cultivation from Flanders and France, where it has been 

 ^^^^^1. Parkinson, in the year 1640 says, that it is '' generally known to be a singular food for 



dr. qr. 



8 0^ 



45 



7 0^ 



long culti- 



f^attle 



■Woldrid 





Wiltshi 

 twenty 



'^^ed the same, that from a noble per acre, twenty acres together have been certainly worlli 

 ^y shillings per acre, and yet continues in good proof/ 



tlliv 



These extracts shew the high opi- 



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