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to the edge and often produced into minute teeth. Peduncles, racemes or 

 fiower-heads axilhuy, or apparently tenniual by the reduction of the upper 

 -floral leaves, never leaf-opposed. Upper stamens free, except in O/io^m, the 

 others united in a sheath. Ovules 2 or more (except in Medicago lupidim). 

 Pod not articulate. 



This tribe, consisting chiefiy of European and North Asiatic plants, with a few Americaa 

 or tropical species, is represented in Australia by only one indigenous species, and that oHe 

 closely allied to some east Mediterranean forms. Several European species have however 

 become more or less established in waste or cultivated places in the settled colonies, espe- 

 cially the following : — 



0/fonis Matrix, l>inn. A low much-branched perennial, more or less viscid-pubescent. 

 Leaves piunately trifoliolate or the upper ones 1-folioIate, with denticulate leaflets. Flowers 

 rather lari^e, yellow, often streaked with purple, solitary on axillary peduncles. Stamens all 

 united ill a closed tube.^ Pod straight, oblouii:, turgid.— Campbell's Creek, Herb. F. Mueller. 

 Medicafjo saliva, Linn., or cultivated Lacern, A perenniahvith ascending or erect steins, 

 of 1 to 2 ft. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Peduncles axillary, bearing a short close raceuie 

 of violet or blue flowers. Upper stan>en free. Pod spirally twisted so as to form 2 or rarely 

 3 complete coils, withoiit tubercles or prickles.— Rocky pastures, Victoria and S. Australia, 

 F, Mueller, — J/, lujjullna, Linn., a softly pubescent or hairy annual. Leaves pinnately 3- 

 foholate. Peduncles axillary, bearing a compact raceme or head of very small yellow flowers. 

 Ovary 1-ovulate. Pod small, kidney-shaped, marked with veins curved almost into a spire, 

 the minute base of the style completing the spire.— Gabo island, ilftf/V^'^y/^;?^, and about 

 Fort Jackson.— Jf. denticftlata, Willd. An annual, glabrous or nearly so. Leavts pia- 

 nately 3-fohoIate. Stipules finely-toothed. Flowers very small, yellow, few, in little heads 

 on axillary peduucdes. Pod spirally-twisted, forming 2 or 3 loose flat coils veined on the 

 surface and edged with 2 rows of hooked or curved prickles.— Waste places, aueenslaud, 

 N. S. Wales, Victoria, and S. Australia. 



Melilotus parviflora,J)^^t A slender branching annual. Leaves pinnately S-foliolate 

 with narrow leaflets. Flowers small, yellow, in slender axillary racemes. Pod of 1 or 2 

 seeds, straight, thick, small, but longer than the calvx, indchiscent.— About Port Jackson, 

 m lasniania and in S. Australia. 



Trifofiiun p'ateme, i.inn., or Red Clover, A more or less hairy decumbent or erect 

 perennial, of 1 to 2 ft. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers of a purplish-red, in ovoul 

 showy heads, apparently teruiiual, with 2 sessile 3-foliolate leaves close under the head. 

 U-nvs ot the lower petals adhering to the sta.uiaal tube, as in all the tbUawing species of 

 Infohum. Pod small, enclosed in the calyx.- Pastures on the Snowy River, in the AustiH- 

 h^rx M^^,KMueifer.~T. repens, Linn., or White or Dutch Clover, A glabrous or 

 sUglitly hairy perennial, the stems creeping and rooting at the nodes. Leaves digitately ^- 

 lolioiate with obovate leaflets. Peduncles axillary, long and erect, bcarin- a globular ilense 

 umbel of white flowers. .Pod 2- to 4.3eeded, usually protruding from the calyx, but enclosed 

 in he withered corolla.-Victoria and S. Australia.-^. ar;rariu.n, Linn., or Hop Chf. 

 A slender branching annual, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves' pinnately S-foliolate, with obo- 

 vate or obcordate leaflets. Flowers small, yellow. 30 to 50 to-ether, in loosely gh'hular or 

 ovoid head^, turning a pale-brown in fading, persis^teut, reflexed, with a strongly striate 

 standard concealmg the small pod.-Victoria and S. Australia.-2l procumbe.s, Lmn- 

 U- mnus, Sm ) ditFenng from T, ayrarium, in being more slender and procumbent, witti 



28. TRIGONELLA, Linn. 



Calyx-teeth nearly equal. Petals free from the staminal tube ; standard 

 obovate or oblons. narrowed at tlie base but scarcolv chuved ; wiuiis a»1 

 keel shorter, obtuse. Upper stamen free or at first united with the others; 

 tilaments not dihited; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly »tipil"i^' 

 with several ovules ; style filiform. Pod either linear straight or curved, or 



