Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Bird's Foot, Common

BIRD's FOOT (Common), or Ornithopus perpusillus, L. is an indigenous plant; the yellow flowers of which blow in July or August; and the legumen, or pulse, is curved in the form of a bow. See Curt. Lond. fasc. 6.

This plant affords a good fodder for sheep, when grass is scarce, in the latter end of autumn.

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