Order IV. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
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10560 Leaves ternate downy beneath. Stem angular downy. Racemes axillary 
10561 Leaves ternate roundish ovate and branches 3-cornered hairy, Pedunc. umb. axill. shorter than petiole 
10562 Leaves ternate oblong. Stem branched. Raceme terminal, Pods with 2 joints strigose 
10563 Leaves simple reniform cordate repand, Racemes axillary with hooked hairs 
10564 Leaves ternate ovate villous, Stem climbing. Racemes terminal 
10565 Leafl. roundish hairy beneath, Panic, term, contracted bracteate, Pedunc. and cal. very hairy 
10566 Leaves tern. Stem hairy rough, Leafl. roundish and obi. pale beneath somew. hairy, Racemes terminal 
10567 Leaves tern. obi. subcordate pale and soft beneath, Raceme terminal 
10568 Leaves tern, oval-lanc. blunt : lateral very minute, Panicle terminal, Pods repand below pendulous 
10569 Leaves tern, ovate acute hairy, Stem climbing 3-cornered, Racemes very long axillary 
10570 Leaves tern. obi. lane. Stipules filiform, Fl. racemose. Pods hispid 
10571 Leaves tern, roundish downy beneath, Stipules ovate acuminate, Stemangul. cil. hispid 
10572 Leaves tern, oblong villous beneath. Stipules subulate. Racemes panicled. Pods with 3 joints 
10373 Leaves tern, ovate blunt subcordate at base. Stipules lane, subulate, Panicle terminal 
10574 Leaves tern, roundish obovate downy beneath, Stipules lane. Racemes axillary 
10575 Leaves tern, ovate-obl. blunt smoothish, Racemes erect axillary, Pods tortuous 
10576 Leaves tern, ovate-obl. rough beneath, Stip. lane, cuspid. Racemes panicled with bractes 
10577 Leaves tern, oblong lane, smooth. Panic, term. Joints of pod rhomboid downy 
10578 Leaves tern, ovate acute. Raceme term, very long, Pods repand villous 
10579 Leaves tern, ovate acum. Panicle term. Joints of pod netted downy at edge 
10580' Leaves tern, roundish ovate acuminate, Panicle scape-like from the base of stem. Peduncles viscid 
10581 Leaves tern, ellipt. blunt beneath and petioles hirsute. Raceme term, simple 
10582 Leaves tern, obcordate. Stem procumb. Pedunc. 1-fl. axillary, Pods with upper edge repand 
10583 Leaves tern. lane, blunt. Racemes axillary. Stem twining 
10584 Leaves pinnate lane. Raceme very long spiked. Joints of pod ellipt. plaited 
10585 Leaves pinnate oval broader at base silky beneath, Cal. shorter than corolla, Joints of pod downy rough 
10586 Leaves pinnate, Leafl. ellipt. blunt downy beneath alternate, Jomts of pod netted 
10587 Leaves pinn. Leafl. altern. smooth obovate retuse. Racemes axill. few-fl. 
10588 Leaves pinn. ovate lane, smooth. Racemes long axill. Bractes shorter than peduncle 
10589 Leaves pinn. ovate smooth. Racemes axill. Bractes longer than peduncle 
10590 Leaves pinn. lane, linear downy beneath. Joints of pod i-oundish roughish 
10591 Leaves pinn. in 7 pairs ellipt. Racemes capitate axillary stalked. Standard striped 
10592 Leaves pinn. roundish ellipt. Joints of pod roundish aculeate naked 
10593 Leaves pinn. oblong. Pods flexuose. Joints prickly 
10594 Leaves pinn. linear cuneiform, Wings very short. Joints of pod roundish hairy prickly 
10595 Leaves pinn. obovate emarg. hispid at edge. Raceme term. Pods with many joints muricated 
10596 Leaves pinn. obovate emarg. Flowers in capitate racemes. Joints of pod round villous acuminate 
10597 Leaves pinn. cuneate smooth. Wings as long as calyx, Pods smooth 1-seeded prickly 
10598 Leaves pinn. linear smooth. Wings shorter than calyx. Pods smooth 1-seeded prickly 
10599 Leaves pinn, linear silky beneath. Wings shorter than cal. Pods downy 1-seeded prickly-toothed 
10600 Leaves ternate roundish downy beneath. Stem round. Branches declinate ascending hairy 
1060T Leaves pinnate ellipt. silky, Cal. as long as wings. Joints of pod villous 
10602 Leaves pinnate silky shining roundish ovate, Ca). length of corolla, Joints of pod rugose downy 
10603 Leaves pinnate obi. smooth. Wings shorter than cal. Pods 1-seeded prickly. Teeth of crest subulate 
10604 Leaves pinnate obi. smooth. Petals nearly equal. Pods 1-seeded prickly, Teeth of crest lanceolate 
10605 Leaves pinnate, Racemes long, Pods inflexed 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
The Code of Agriculture, it is said to be " one of the most valuable herbage plants we owe to the bounty of 
providence." 
The deeper the soil is stirred previously to sowing the better; the seed is generally put in broad cast, at the 
rate of three or four bushels the acre, and sometimes a little red clover is sown afterwards to produce a crop 
the second season, when the saint-foin plants are but small. When saint-foin is annually mown, it should be 
top-dressed with manure ; but if only occasionally mown, the benefits derived from the grazing of sheep or 
eattle wiU, to a considerable extent, answer for surface dressings in a plant that derives a part of its nutriment 
from the subsoil. Saint-foin is highly nutritive, either cut green or made into hay. The produce, on a medium 
of soils and cultivation, may probably be estimated at from about one and a half to two tons the acre. And 
on the poorer and thinner staple sorts of land, it will perhaps seldom afford less than from a ton to a ton and 
a half on the acre. One thousand parts of saint-foin afforded Sir H. Davy thirty-nine of nutritive matter, 
■which is the same as that afforded by the red and white clover. 
The usual duration of saint-foin, in a profitable state^ is from eight to ten years. It usually attains its 
perfect growth in about three years, and begins to decline towards the eighth or tenth on calcareous soils, and 
about the seventh and eighth on gravels. There are instances, however, of fields of saint-foin, which 
had been neglected and left to run into pasture, in which plants have been found upwards of fifty years from 
the time of sowing. It has been cultivated upwards of a century on the Cotswold hills, and there roots of it 
have been traced down into stone quarries from ten to twenty feet in length, and in Germany, Von Thaer 
found them attain the length of sixteen feet. In general, the great enemy to the endurance of saint-foin, is 
the grass which accumulates, and forms a close turf on the surface, and thus chokes up the plant. 
