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SAINFOIN (Onobry- chis saliva) in botany is a low-growing per- ennial plant with a woody rootstock, whence proceed the stems, which are covered with fine hairs and bear
long pinnate leaves, thesegments of which are elliptic. The flowers
are borne in close pyra- midal or cylindrical clusters on the end of long stalks. EachSainfoin (Onobrychis saliva). i, Fruit, flower is about half an nat. size. inch in length with lanceolate calyx-teeth shorter than the corolla, which latter is papilionaceous, pink
The indehiscent pods or legumes are flattened from side to side, wrinkled, somewhat sickle-shaped and crested, and contain a single olive-brown seed shaped like a small bean. In Great
Siberia
Great
Flanders
south
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