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Professor Braun mentions a Fumariaceous genus, in which the flowers in the lower part of the spike bear oval, ribbed, one-seeded nutlets; and in the upper part of the spike, lanceolate, two-valved and two-seeded siliques.
We'll have to go without, or else, after all, break our fast upon these beans." Saying which, he glances up to the algarobias, from which the long siliques droop down in profusion, more plentiful than tempting to him.
This fact suggesting itself to Gaspar as he lies watching the horses plucking off the long siliques, and greedily devouring them he says: "We can make a meal on the algarobia beans, if nothing better's to be had. And for me, it wouldn't be the first time by scores. In some parts where I've travelled, they grind them like maize, and bake a very fair sort of bread out of their meal."
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