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Under the hot climate of India the plant secretes an acid, which | 
_the following names: in Arabic, the green-seeded sort, the ph 
7 Decaisne and Naudin, Man., iv. 316. 8 Heuze, Les Pl. Alim., Îi. gih 
e aee, lib. iv, c. 6, . % Dodonæus, Frument., 15 
710 | History of Garden Vegetables. 
the natives collect by spreading a cloth overnight on the plant . 
and wringing out the dew in the morning; this they use br 
vinegar or for forming a cooling drink. 7 
The multitude of the vernacular names of the chickpea 
their distribution, indicate the presence of numerous varieties | 
and an extended use. The European names are, in English, 
chick-pea, Egyptian pea, horse-gram, [in India] Bengal grami 
in France, pois chiche, garvance, café français, ceseron, ciceroll, , 
ciseran, garvane, pisette, pois becu, pois blanc, pois ciche, pois cort p 
pois de brebis, pois gris, pois pointu, pois de Malaga, téte de bélier; 
in Germany, Kitchererbse ; in Italy, cece; in Spain, garbani 
in Portugal, chicaro, grao de bico; in Greece, hrobithi. 
In the extra European countries it has received, among othe 
malaneh; the dry seed, komos; hims? al-koular ;3 in e 
chala, boot, chuna-batoola? boot-kaley ;+ in Egypt, homos ;* 
Hebrew, etsech;3 in Hindustani, but, hurbury, chenna ;* = 
Malay, kadala;* in Persia, nakhuda;5 in Sanscrit, cham 
sanakha, harimanthaka ;5 in Tamil, cadalie? kadalai;’ in Tele 
senegaloo,' senegalu, senaga ;5 in Burmah, kaduda’ 
CHICKLING Verc. Lathyrus sativus L. 
This in many regions is rather a forage-plant than a vege 
but in the south and southwest parts of Europe, as in Italy 
Spain, and also in Turkey® and India, as well as elsewhere, 
grown for the use of the seed in soups, etc., ° as well as m 
manner of green peas.* It has been cultivated in Sout 
Europe from a remote period, and finds mention by Columella 
and Palladius.? According to Heuze, it came from S 
France in 1640; but this must refer to some variety, 
appears to have been well known to the herbalists of the 
teenth century, as by Dodonzus* in 1556, and others. It 
included among American vegetables by Burr in 1863, 
* Delile, Fl. Ægypt, illust. 2 Birdwood, Veg. Pr 
Revs AT A E 4 Drury, Useful Pl. of Tnd., 134 
Elliot, Bot. of Ed., vii. 6 Pickering, Ch. Hist., 183 
aoon » Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 120. 1° Bon Jardinier, 1832, 603. 
= Noisette, Man., 1860, ii. 377. 12 Columella, lib. ii. c. 1i. 
