Empty legumes - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 60710 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Medicago lupulina | Entry Book Number | 5.1904 | |
| Artefact Name | Empty legumes | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | France | TDWG Region | France | ||
| Parts Held | Empty legumes | Geography Description | North France | ||
| Uses | Empty legumesUse: ANIMAL FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | ANIMAL FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Murray CH | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Les Casses de Minettes (see letter 203. 1904) 1. Minette = Medicago lupulina Eur. Am. Hor. 2881 Cat. Polyglotte ? p.310. 2. Medicago lupulina Linn. Fl. Br. Ind. 11.90. Fodder - a common weed collected frequently for fodder. Dict. Econ. Prod, Ind. (Hab.) 3. See specimen amongst Linseed adulterants. 4. Fl. Br. Ind. II 90. Pod minute linear sickle shaped unarmed, one seeded; 1/2/12 no. long indehiscent, glabrous or downy, faintly veined longitudinally, finally black. 5. Black Medick (Medicagolup, ulina) E. Nilezek (Chron. Agr. ? land 8/1895) no. 4 pp. 82-84) At Zurich black Medick from Gernamy gave a larger yield of forage, produced larger leaves of seeds and proved hardier but was later in reaching maturity than seed from Germany. Exp. St. Recor, d N.S.A. No. 6 1894-95/808). 6. Medicago lupulina Black Medick. An annual or biennial, widely grown as a pasture plant in wet meadows and on stiff clayey soils, which are too poor to grow alfalfa or clover. It is sometimes recommended to be grown mixed wi, th white clover for lawns as it remains green during the driest summers. The chief use to which Black Medick is put is to adulterate Red Clover seed. Red Clover seed imported into this country, sometimes consists of 50 % or more of Medicago lupulina. (Fod, der & Forage Plants in Agrostology Bull. No 2 U.S. Dept of Agric.) No. 5 /1904 New Products. J.H.H. Oct 11th 1904. | ||||