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Perennial herbs with more or less prostrate stems and trifoliolate 
leaves. Flowers in short axillary spike-like racemes. Calyx-lobes subequal, | 
Stamens 10, the upvermost free, the remainder united. Pods more or less 
strongly spirally coiled, or curved, indehiscent, 
1. MM. lupulina L. Leaflets obovate, wedge-shaped below, 1 om, long or less, 
toothed above the middle; racemes .5~1 cm, long on peduncles 1,5-2 om, 
long; corolla 3 mm, long, yellow; pods 2.5-3 mm, long, strongly flattened, 
curved, veined, in compact cylindrical or ovoid clusters 1l-1.5 cm, long, 
In fields and waste places; naturalized from Burope. 
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