. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. en inches, and bears an inflated two-seededpod with tuberculated seeds. The seeds are re-markable for their resemblance to a rams head ;and, although generally unpalatable to northernEuropeans, they form a prized article of food inthe East and in some parts of southern are eaten raw or boiled. The most re-markable circumstance about Cicer arietanum is,that during the heats of summer its leaves andstem exude little viscid drops, which, on evapora-tion, leave behind crystals of nearly pure oxalic-acid. Its gra
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. en inches, and bears an inflated two-seededpod with tuberculated seeds. The seeds are re-markable for their resemblance to a rams head ;and, although generally unpalatable to northernEuropeans, they form a prized article of food inthe East and in some parts of southern are eaten raw or boiled. The most re-markable circumstance about Cicer arietanum is,that during the heats of summer its leaves andstem exude little viscid drops, which, on evapora-tion, leave behind crystals of nearly pure oxalic-acid. Its grateful refrigerating qualities are owingto this acid. Persons who walk through the fieldswhere it grows, with common leather shoes, find them destroyed by the The cicer plant remains seven months in the ground. It is plucked up by the roots, andthreshed by the norreg. Besides the constant use of this pulse by the peasantry, it is usual inthe principal towns of Egypt and Syria to roast the grains over the fire in a large basin, andto eat them when properly [Chick Pea. Cicer arietanum.] a Virgil, ; Martial, xiii. Mishna, tit. Celim, cap. xvii. sec. Shaw, i. 257. Penny Cyclopaedia. art. Cicer. K Cicer Arietanum. b Augustin, Comment in Psalm • Nat. Hist. xviii. 12. e Ibid. 17. h Plin. Nat 12. Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—SEPTEMBER. cccxix What has been stated of the culture of chick-peas may be applied almost without restrictionto Lupins,* fields of which have been noticed in Syria by various travellers. The culture isprobably conducted on the principles and for the same purposes as in Egypt. It is there sownin November, and in about five months is ready for the scythe. The stems are too ligneousto be of service in finding cattle; but they are all the more serviceable for fuel, and formaking a kind of charcoal which enters into the manufacture of gunpowder. The grains arebeaten out with rods, or staves, a substitute for
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