DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Medicago. 3^1 



6. M. minima. Little Bur Medlck. 



Stalks many-flowered. Stipulas half-ovate, nearly entire. 

 Leaflets obovate, hairy. Legumes orbicular, with a dou- 

 ble row of hooked spines. 



M. minima. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1418. Sw. m Reess Cycl. n. 35. 



Comp. ed. 4. ]25. IVith. 660. Hull 219. 

 M. polymorpha minima. Lhau Sp. PL 1099 ju,. Fl. Br. 798 B. 



Ft. Dan. t.2\\. 

 Medica n. 383 a. Hall. Hist. v.]. 1 66. 



M. echinata minima. Rail Stjn. 333. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 386./, 

 Cochleata fructii echinato minimo. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t.88.f. 14. 

 In sandy fields, but rave. 

 At Narbuigh, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Near Newmarket. Mr. 



D. Turner. [Sandwich old haven, upon sandy ground. Mr. G, 



E. Smith.] 

 Annual. June, July. 



A small prostrate species, clothed in every part with fine, soft, 

 rather silky hairs. Stipulas either quite entire, or with a few 

 shallow teeth. Leajlets obovate, or roundish, with a few teeth 

 at the extremity only, Fl. 4, 5, or more, in each cluster, yellow, 

 with a very hairy calyx. Legumes either hairy or smooth, glo- 

 bular, small, of 3 or 4 convolutions, bordered with a double row 

 of hooked spines, spreading in opposite directions. 



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