[97] The Cicer arietinum of naturalists, the Garbanzo of the Spaniards. It abounds in the south of Europe and in India.
[98] A variety of spelt was called by this name; but it was more generally applied to a kind of flummery, pottage or gruel.
[99] Hence our word “forage.”
[100] Lupinus hirsutus and pilosus of Linnæus.
[101] From Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. viii. c. 2.
[102] All this, of course, depends upon numerous circumstances.
[103] This is certainly the fact, as Fée says, but it is the same with all the graminea.
[104] A characteristic of the Panicum miliaceum in particular.
[105] Or porridge; “puls.”
[106] It has been suggested that this was maize, but that is indigenous to South America. Fée has little doubt that it is the Holcus sorgho of Linnæus, the “Indian millet,” that is meant.