in autumn, mixed
with rye, for early spring food for stock. The seeds are smaller than
those of the summer variety.

Not sufficiently hardy to survive the winters of the Northern States.

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WINGED PEA.

Red Birdsfoot Trefoil. _Mill._ Lotus tetragonolobus.

A hardy, creeping, or climbing, annual plant, fifteen or eighteen inches
in height, or length; leaves trifoliate; flowers large, solitary,
bright-scarlet; pods three inches and a half long, with four
longitudinal, leafy membranes, or wings; seeds globular, slightly
compressed, yellowish-white.

_Use._--The ripened seeds are sometimes used as a substitute for coffee;
and the pods, while young and tender, form an agreeable dish, not unlike
string-beans. It is often cultivated as an ornamental plant; and, for
this purpose, is generally sown in patches, four or five seeds together
on the border, where the plants are intended to remain.

When grown as an esculent, sow in double drills an inch and a half deep,
and two feet apart; the single rows being made twelve inches from each
other.

CHAPTER X.

MEDICINAL PLANTS.

Bene-plant. Camomile. Coltsfoot. Elecampane. Hoarhound. Hyssop.
Licorice. Pennyroyal. Poppy. Palmate-leaved or Turkey Rhubarb. Rue.
Saffron. Southernwood. Wormwood.

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BENE-PLANT.

Oily Grain. Sesamum, sp.

This plant is said to have been introduced into this country from Africa
by the negroes. It is cultivated in the south of Europe, and in Egypt is
grown to a considerable extent for forage and culinary purposes.

It is a hardy annual, with an erect, four-sided stem from two to four
feet high, and opposite, lobed, or entire leaves; the flowers terminate
the stalk in loose spikes, and are of a dingy-white color; the seeds are
oval, flattened, and produced in an oblong, pointed capsule.

_Propagation and Cultivation._--It is propagated from seeds, which
should be sown in spring, as soon as the ground has become well settled.
They may be sown where the plants are to remain; or in a nursery-bed, to
be afterwards transplanted. The plants should be grown in rows eighteen
inches or two feet apart, and about a foot apart in the rows. The
after-culture consists simply in keeping the ground loose, and free from
weeds. The plant is said to yield a much greater amount of herbage if
the top is broken or cut off when it is about half grown.

_Use._--"The seeds wer