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even extend to poultry and cattle (pigeons, swine and liorses) 
fed upon it. These noxious qualities however, if not indeed 
due perhaps to the presence locally or temporarily of some such 
disease as the Ergot of Rye in the pi. itself, seem to have de- 
pended in some measure on the nature of the soil, having been 
more powerful in pi. produced in a rich strong and moist than 
in a poor dry one. At all events, in the light dry soil in which 
this pi. grows mostly in Mad., and used chiefly though to some 
extent by the peasantry as an ingredient in “ Sopas ” or mixed 
with other food, these deleterious properties have never been 
remarked. 
tttl- L- Cicera L. Cliicharo branco, PS. 
Nearly smooth somewhat glaucous branched bushy suberect 
climbing by the branched tendrils; branches diffuse winged 
compressed ; petioles narrowly winged linear ; lfts. in one pair 
linear-oblong elongate acuminate ; stip. large leafy broadly lan- 
ceolate semi-sagittate as long as the leafstalk ; ped. 1-fld. longer 
than the leafstalk awnless ; fl. not large ; cal. -teeth herbaceous 
lanceolate equal, almost 3 times as long as the tube ; pod oblong 
straight-edged rather narrow compressed, irregularly reticulated, 
smooth, straight and merely channeled (not winged) at the back, 
mostly 4- seeded ; seeds 3-5 compressed angular smooth and even. 
— Desf. ii. 158; Brot. ii. 137 ; DC. ii. 373; Koch 222. “ L. sa- 
tivus (3. Lam. Diet. ii. 705.” — Herb. ann. Mad., PS., reg. 2, cult, 
r. Subvarr. : 
1. purpurea ; standard deep blood-crimson or purple. L. Cicera 
L., Desf. P, Brot.?, DC., Koch 11. cit. ; Fl. Gr. t. 694. — Mad. cult, 
as a crop descending into the Rib. de S ta Luzia from the Mount ; 
S. Vicente in fields towards the lower Forno de Cal at the bot- 
tom of the steep zigzag ascent to the Lombo de Vaca. May- 
Julv. — About a foot high. Habit, &c. of L. sativus L. but fl. 
considerably smaller with the standard of a deep rich (blood- 
red) purple. Pods an inch long 31-4 lines broad pale brown or 
fawn-col., torulose, oblong with straight parallel margins, merely 
channeled slightly and not winged along the perfectly straight 
dorsal suture. Seeds 2 lines in diam. 3-4 compressed angular 
dark brown ; hilum oval. 
2. ccerulea ; standard blue (purple when dry!) wings and keel 
paler or white. — PS. cult, as a crop amongst cornfields on the 
hills ; Serra de Dentro amongst corn on the way to the back of 
the Pico Branco. May, June. — Fl. rather small compared with 
those of L. sativus L. Pod 1 in. long 3-4 lines broad, pale straw- 
colour ; the suture not winged but merely channeled, with 
raised edges only; mostly 4-seeded. Seeds 3-5 subquadran- 
gular slightly compressed quite smooth aud oven, pale straw- 
