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LEGTJMINOSJE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 
the calyx, scarcely dehiscent, 1-2-seeded.—Herbs, fragrant in 
drying, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves ; leaflets toothed. (Name 
from /xcXt, honey , and Autos, some leguminous plant.) 
1. HI. officinalis, Willd. (Yellow Melilot.) Upright; 
leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse ; corolla yellow ; the petals nearly of 
equal length. @ —Waste or cultivated grounds, introduced.— Plant 
2°-4° high; with nearly the odor of the Sweet-scented Vernal 
Grass. 
2. IH. leucdntha, Koch. (White Melilot.) Upright; 
leaflets truncate; corolla white, the standard longer than the other 
petals. (2) — With No. 1. 
22. MEDICAGO, L. Medick. 
Flowers nearly as in Melilotus. Pod 1 - several-seeded, scythe¬ 
shaped, curved, or variously coiled. — Leaves pinnately 3-folio¬ 
late. Stipules often cut. (Deriv. from firjbLKrj , the name ap¬ 
plied to Lucerne because it came from Media.) 
1. HI. sativa, L. (Lucerne.) Upright, smooth; leaflets 
obovate-oblong, toothed; flowers (purple) racemed; pods spirally 
twisted. 2J.—Cultivated for green fodder, beginning to be natural¬ 
ized. June - August. 
2. m. lupulina, L. (Black Medick. Nonesuch.) Pro¬ 
cumbent, pubescent; leaflets wedge-obovate, toothed at the apex, 
flowers in short spikes (yellow); pods kidney-form, 1-seeded. @ 
Waste places, naturalized. 
2 3. GENISTA, L. Woad- Waxen. Whin. 
Calyx 2-lipped. Standard oblong-oval, spreading ; keel oblong* 
straight, scarcely including the stamens and style. Stamens mon- 
adelphous, the sheath entire ; 5 alternate anthers shorter. P°^ 
flattened, several-seeded. — Shrubby plants, with simple leaves, 
and yellow flowers. (Name from the Celtic gen, a bush.) 
1. G. tinctoria, L. (Dyer’s Green-weed.) Low, not 
thorny, with striate-angled erect branches; leaves lanceolate ; flowers 
in spiked racemes; pods smooth. — Slightly naturalized in New York 
and E. Massachusetts; — thoroughly established on sterile hills in 
Essex County, Massachusetts. June. 
24. CROTALARIA, L. Rattle-box. 
Calyx 5-cleft, somewhat 2-lipped. Standard large, heart-shap¬ 
ed : keel scythe-shaped. Sheath of the monadelphous stamens 
