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SAINFOIN (Onobry-
chis saliva) in See also:botany
is a See also:low-growing per-
ennial plant with a
woody rootstock,
whence proceed the
stems, which are
covered with See also:fine hairs
and See also:bear numerous
See also:long pinnate leaves, the
segments of which are
elliptic. The See also:flowers
are See also:borne in See also:close pyra-
midal or cylindrical
clusters on the end
of long stalks. Each
Sainfoin (Onobrychis saliva). i, See also:Fruit, See also:flower is about See also:half an
nat. See also:size. See also:inch in length with
lanceolate calyx-See also:teeth shorter than the corolla, which latter is papilionaceous, See also:pink, with darker stripes of the same See also:colour.
The indehiscent pods or legumes are flattened from See also:side to side, wrinkled, somewhat sickle-shaped and crested, and contain a single See also:olive-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:seed shaped like a small See also:bean. In See also:Great See also:Britain the plant is a native of the calcareous districts of the See also:southern counties, but elsewhere it is considered as an See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from cultivation. It is native throughout the whole of Central ,See also:Europe and See also:Siberia; but it does not seem to have been cultivated in Great Britain till 1651, when it was introduced from See also:France or See also:French See also:Flanders, its French name being retained. See also:Alphonse de See also:Candolle (Origin of Cultivated See also:Plants, p. 104) considers that the cultivation of sainfoin originated in the See also:south of France as See also:late perhaps as the 15th See also:century. It is grown as a See also:forage plant, being especially well adapted for dry See also:limestone soils. It has about the same nutritive value as See also:lucerne, and is esteemed for milch See also:cattle and for See also:sheep in See also:winter. Besides the See also:common See also:form, a second known as See also:giant sainfoin is met with in cultivation, being more rapid in its growth.
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