. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . .>>5^ Fig. 40.—Lima Bean {Phaseolus lunalus. Pulse Family, Leguminosae).Plant of a twilling variety in flower and fruit x iV. (Vilmorin.)—Theplant is an annual closely resembling the Kidney Bean except thatthe flowers are greenish white and the pods are broad, flattened, andcurved like a scimitar. large amount of indigestible material (cellulose) in propor-tion to the proteid and other nutritive Fromthis it follows that not only are earth-vegetables more bulkyto store than grains and pulse (and, moreover, cannot or-dinar

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. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . .>>5^ Fig. 40.—Lima Bean {Phaseolus lunalus. Pulse Family, Leguminosae).Plant of a twilling variety in flower and fruit x iV. (Vilmorin.)—Theplant is an annual closely resembling the Kidney Bean except thatthe flowers are greenish white and the pods are broad, flattened, andcurved like a scimitar. large amount of indigestible material (cellulose) in propor-tion to the proteid and other nutritive Fromthis it follows that not only are earth-vegetables more bulkyto store than grains and pulse (and, moreover, cannot or-dinarily be kept longer than a few months) but in order to 52 VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS.

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