104. 
in 7’s, the upper only in 3’s. 
, 8. * Onobrychis. Stem tall and smooth: leaves ternate, . 
— * 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIAs 
small. Calix and leaves glandulous, All thelarger leaves 
leaflets ovate-lanceolate, somewhat pubescent; racemes 
(axillary) long pedunculate; flowers secund; legume subo- 
vate, muricate, smooth; root flagellate. Has. On the banks 
of the river Merrimek, a few miles from St. Louis, Loui- 
siana. Os. Stem 3 to 5 feet high, brownish; leaves like 
an Hedysarum which it greatly resembles; racemes 6 in- 
ches long or more; legumes on one side, longer than the 
calix, black, 1-seeded, and extremely rough with tuber- 
cles. Perhaps a trifoliate Onodrychis: the flowers I have 
not seen, although I have had the plant cultivated in the 
neighbourhood of London. Perhaps P. Hedysarcides of 
Muhl. Catal. 
9. * virgata. Nearly smooth; stem striate, virgate; leaves - 
simple, very remote, linear-lanceolate, radical oblong- 
about 2 feet high, si 
ovate; spikes oblong, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves 
(axillary); bractes long and subulate, deciduous. Has. 
In West Florida between St. Mary’s and Satilla river— 
Dr. Baldwyn. O2s. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, 
imply branched from the base. Leaves 
escent 0 well as the spike-in a 
long and acu’ ermost only 
Pedut rou ther dense; 
e, the ve va finely yein- 
aspan apart, a littl 
early stage, 2 to 3 
2 or 3 lines wide. 
flowers pedicellate, nearly b 
ed. Calix .5-cleft, glandulou 
produced. Legume l-seeded, even. _ 
With very few exceptions this genus is indigenous to - 
_ Flowers racemose.—-Calix tubulous, 5-tooth- - 
ed. Curina simple, shorter than the wings and 
North America and the Cape of Good Hope. 
[ELILOTUS. Tournefort. 
~vexillum. Legume as long as the calix, rugose. 
ae 
- €fs not capitate. 
oblong-lanceolate, entire; flowering raceme partly oblong, 
Species of Trifolium. L. which they resemble exacily 
habit, but the stem is generally erett,. and the flow- 
7 
cies. 1. M. offcinalis. 
tS 
2. *Psoraloides. Trifolit - Walter. Pas 
Melilotoides. Willd. » Siem €rect; leaflets 
es 
1s, lower segment a little 
