PAPILIONACEAE 103 



vel obovatis, apice denticulatis, obtusis, venulosis, puberulis; 

 petioli pedimculo longiores vel subaequales; ^e^ioZwZws medius 

 caeteris longior; stipulae lacinulatae; hracteae parvulae, acu- 

 minatao, iiliformes, pubernlae; racUx ramosa, iibrosa et e- 

 longata. 



Floret Aprili, Majo. 



Aetnae, in saxosis vulcanicis cultis pedemontanae regionis: 

 Battiati, CanaliccMo, Leucatea prope Catanam. 



Icon. Moris Fl. Sard. 1. tah. 42.—Lam. III. 7. tah. 612. 

 fig. 12. 



Medicago truncatulata. Giiss. Syn. Fl. Sic. 2. x^ag. 872. — 

 Ten. Fl. Nap. 5. pag. 171.~Torn. Fl. Sic. pag. 206. 



Medica truncatula. Gaert. Fr. II. pag. 350. tah. 155. le- 

 gnm.—Arcang. Gomp. della Fl. Ital. pag. 162. 



MedicMgo tribuloides var. h. breviaculeata. Moris Fl. Sard. 

 1. pag. 441. tah. 42. 



Medicago tribuloides var. h. narbonensis. DC. Frodr. 2. 

 pag. 178. 



18. M. elegans. — Flores 1-4, parvi, lutei, axillares; scapus 

 folio brevior, cylindricus, pilosus, viridis, in flore erectus et 

 in fructu curvatus; pedicelli brevissimi, cylindrici, pilosi, 

 bracteati; cahjx campanulatus, basi nigro-maculatus, pilosus, 

 quinquifidus, laciniis angustissimis, linearibus, tubo longio- 

 ribus, acutis; corolla lutea, glabra, parva, calyce duplo lon- 

 gior; genitalia generis; legimen inerme, cochleatum, planum, 

 laxiuscule tricyclum, spiris dextrorsum versis, duas-tres li- 

 neas latum, glabrum vel pilosum, pilis brevibus, apice glan- 

 duliferis, radiatim venoso-ramosum, venis numerosis, pluri- 

 bus confluentibus, prope marginem externum incrassatis in 

 rugas aequales, approximatas, maturitate albescens, raro fu- 

 scum; semina grandiuscula, reniformia, laevia, nitidula, fla- 

 vo-fulva, lobo radiculari prominente, acuto; caulis prostra- 

 tus vel adscendens, pilosus, pilis pliiribus apice glanduliferis, 

 palmari-sesquipedalis; folia trifoliolata, foliolis rhombeis aut 

 obovatis, cuneatis, superne minute et acute denticulatis, mu- 

 cronulatis, supra glabris et snbtus adpresse pubescentibus 

 vel pilosis et pallidioribus; petioli longiusculi, sulcati, virides 

 canaliculati, villosi; petioMhis medius lateralibus longior; sti- 

 pulae latae, semisagittatae, argute et inaequaliter dentatae; 



