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Cicer arietinum. Chick pea; Ram's horn; Gram; Coffee pea. (Fig. 11.) 
An annual cdm native of Armenia, which has been cultivated as cattle food and 
as an article of human diet for over three thousand years. Next to the cereals, 
it forms the dis part of the food used in Spain, India, and portions of Africa. 
The seeds are ground into meal, and used in the same manner as cotton-seed meal 
for fattening animals. The leaves are covered with a clammy exudation, con- 
sisting largely of oxalic acid, so that the plant itself is unsuited for forage, but 
itis often used as a soil renovator. The yield of seed is sometimes very large— 
upward of 100 bushels to the acre. The crop ripens in about four months. 
FIG. 10.—Pigweed (Chenopodium lepto- Fie. 11.—Gram (Cicer 
phyllum). ` arietinum). 
Cichorium endivium. Endive. 
This culinary 5 is M adapted as a pasture plant for extremely arid 
regions, as it matures seed which will germinate in the hottest deserts of central 
Australia. a Mueller.) 
Cichorium intybus. Chicory. 
A well-known perennial, indigenous to Europe and northern Asia, where it is found 
growing wild along roadsides and in old fields. It is a good fodder plant, 
especially for sheep, and can be kept growing for several years if it is cut before 
flowering. The roots are much used as a substitute for coffee. 
Clitoria mariana. Butterfly pea. 
A low ascending or twining legume with pinnately trifoliate leaves and pale-blue | 
flowers 2 inches long. It grows on dry hills and banks of streams in the Eastern 
and Southern States. A nutritious e plant for NIMM pastures, but 
erm too scattering to be of much value 
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