. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. ulletin 693, 1915. p- 5-) has been published. These five are the adsuki bean {Phaseolus angular is),the rice bean [Phaseolus calcaratus), the mung bean [Phaseolus aureus),the urd (Phaseolus mungo) and the moth bean {Phaseolus aconitifolius).The sprouted mung beans are used as one of the chief constituents ofordinary chop suey, served in Chinese restaurants in the United are two kinds of bur clover cultivated in the United States, (Fig89), namely, the spotted, or so
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. ulletin 693, 1915. p- 5-) has been published. These five are the adsuki bean {Phaseolus angular is),the rice bean [Phaseolus calcaratus), the mung bean [Phaseolus aureus),the urd (Phaseolus mungo) and the moth bean {Phaseolus aconitifolius).The sprouted mung beans are used as one of the chief constituents ofordinary chop suey, served in Chinese restaurants in the United are two kinds of bur clover cultivated in the United States, (Fig89), namely, the spotted, or southern bur clover {Medicago arabica) andthe toothed, or California bur clover {Medicago hispidula denticulata) (). These are used as cover crops, for soil renovation, for pasture andhay. The horse, broad, or Windsor bean {Vicia Jaba) is one of the oldest ?o8 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY cultivated plants in Europe, and elsewhere, but of minor importance in theUnited States, used as human food, and as a valuable stock feed (Figs. 91and 92). The Japan clover (Lespedeza striata) was introduced from China,. Fig. 90.—Bur clover with prickly pods {Medicago denticulala). {After Ball, Carle-ton, R.: Winter Forage Crops for the South. Farmers Bulletin 147, 1902, p. 28; upperfigures of pods from Piper, C. V. and McKee, R.: Bur Clover. Farmers Bulletin 693,191S. p. 4.) or Japan into the South Atlantic states, where it is grown for hay andpasture. Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciafolia) was introduced from Asia, butis little grown here. The serradella (Qrnithopus sativus) is successful on FORAGE PLANTS OF THE FAMILY LEGXJMINOSiE 209 thin soils and makes good Kay. The velvet bean (Mucuna utilis) is oneof the most exacting members of the leguminous family as regards tem-
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