DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Medicago. 321 



6. M. minima. Little Bur Medick. 



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

 Leaflets obovate, hairy. Legumes orbicular, with a double 

 row of hooked spines. 



M. minima. Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. 1418. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. n. 35. 



Comp. ed. 4. 125. Mlth. 660. Hull 219. 

 M. polvmorpha minima. Lhm. Sp. PL 1099 /x. Fl. Br. 798 /3. 



FLban.t.2\\. 

 Medica n. 383 a. Hall. Hist. v.\.\66. 



M. echinata minima. Rail Syn. 333. Baith. Hist. v. 2. 38G./. 

 Cochleata fructu echinato minimo. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 88./. 14. 



In sandy fields, but rare. 



At Narburgh, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Near Newmarket. iMr. 

 D. Turner. 



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. Leaflets 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. 



