Goat's Rue

Goat's Rue (Galega), a genus of Leguminosæ, of which one herbaceous perennial species (G. officinalis) is sometimes cultivated like lucerne (especially in Switzerland) as a forage plant, on account of the great bulk of produce which it yields. Its peculiar smell is not relished by cattle unaccustomed to it. It was formerly also employed in medicine, but is now seldom heard of beyond the herbaceous flower-border.