N. ORD.—LEGUMINOS&. 
Tribe.—TRIFOLIEA. 
GENUS.—MELILOTU S,* TOURN. 
SEX. SYST.—DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
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MELILOTUS. 
SWEET CLOVER. 
MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS, WILLD. 
SYN.—MELILOTUS VULGARIS, EATON, TRIFOLIUM OFPICINALE, LINN. 
COM. NAMES.—_SWEET CLOVER, YELLOW MELILOT, YELLOW SWEET 
CLOVER, MELILOT; (FR.) MELILOT; (GER.) STEINKLEE, MELILO- 
TENKLEE. 
MELILOTUS ALBA, LAM. 
SYN.—MELILOTUS LEUCANTHA, KOCH, MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS, 
PURSH, MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS, VAR. ALBA., NUTT. 
COM. NAMES.—_SWEET CLOVER, WHITE MELILOT, MELILOT. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH FLOWERS OF M. OFFICINALIS AND M. ALBA.+ 
Description.—Melilotus officinalis.—This sweet-scented European plant has 
now become quite thoroughly naturalized here, growing either as an annual or 
perennial herb. Stem with its spreading branches 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves alter- 
nate, pinnately 3-divided. Leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse, sharply and widely 
serrate, from one-half to 1 inch long. acemes axillary, spiked, from 2 to 3 
inches long while flowering. Flowers small, yellow, about one-quarter of an inch 
long when fully expanded. Calyx persistent, with 5 unequal pointed teeth. Corolla 
more than twice the length of the calyx, deciduous. Petals: vexillum ovate, acute, 
slightly longer than the wings; al@ induplicate ; cariza completely united, coher- 
ing to, and looking backward between, the alz, entirely free from the stamen 
tube. Stamens 10, diadelphous, inserted with the corolla; anthers uniform; 
pollen grains more or less abruptly cylindrical, resembling Trifolium, but much 
smaller and more uniform. Ovary free, 1-celled, containing 1 or 2 amphitropous 
ovules; s¢y/e filiform, terminal. Fod (legume) about one-sixth of an inch in 
length, pyriform in the cup of the withered calyx, inflated or gibbous, coriaceous, 
transversely wrinkled, scarcely dehiscent and tipped with the persistent style. 
a leguminose plant, so called, 
” orders separate tinctures to be made, The -provings were made of a tincture of both 
erman Pharmacopeeia recognizes only M, officinalis (Yellow Melilot), 
* ner; honey, r\wrbs, 
| + The “Amer. Hom. Phar. 
: M. officinalis and M, alba combined, The G 
