GROUND NUT 



produces the familiar nut-like pods whose oily seeds, when roasted, 

 are the peanuts of children's devotion. 



The leaves are pinnate, the flowers, papilionaceous, yellow, the 

 banner veined with red. After blooming, the flowering stem 

 grows longer, bends toward the earth, and fairly thrusts the pod 

 underground to ripen. In cultivation this process is assisted 

 and earth is heaped up about the stems. 



The Peanut is cultivated all over the world where the climate 

 permits, but probably is of the greatest economic value in Africa. 

 It was long supposed that hypogxa was the only species, but 

 several others have recently been discovered in Brazil. 



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