. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. 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
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. 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-. FiG. 91.—Broad, or Windsor bean {Vicia faba): {After Abel, Mary H.: Beans, Peasand other Legumes as Food. Farmers Bulletin 121, 1900, p. 6.) perature, and hence, its growth is confined to Florida and the Gulf coast,where it is used as a green manure and as a forage crop (Fig. 93). Manyof the species of vetch have been more or less extensively cultivated, and 14 lO PASTORAL AND AGKICULTUKAL BOTANY sev-eral others growing wild are used for hay, or pasturage, or in a fewcases the seeds are used as human foods. The cultivated kinds include
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