DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Medicago. 
Loti pamaiedsiee major species. R. Syn. 334. (St.) Woods, 
moist meadows ges, [and sides of wet ditches. Sr.] 
P. June—Aug. 
Var. 8. tenuissimus. Linn. Should seem to be a tines Stems 
twice as long and narrow as those of 1. Leaves st 
Legumen i ri ~ ph a shrubby. Ray. Stipules .strap. 
spear-shaped 
bees fs ‘felis varices et angrsoiba Hart, 385 4 II. (Sr) ) 
Cornfields and moist places. Ray.—In the neighbourhood of 
Worcester. Sr. 
M Marg te Like 2. but less hairy. Ray. Whole plant downy. 
tr W 
Saini :priapbles medius me R. Syn. 334. (Sr. ) Inthe 
fields be er-huff’s. 
ae Vat 8. taped hoary sdaiihate 
Chalk pits at Greenhithe. Ray. 
Var. 6. smecth. Plant entirely hairless ; stipulz half-egg. 
bab TE filaments club-sha ; 
High grounds North o Marlboroug h. June, 
The common trailing sort, and hon yakcinind, which “a. 
woods, ought, I think, to be specifically distinguished. . The Le. 
gumens of the former grow sachally 5 re = of the latter 
. - The seeds 
much devoured by the /arve of pine 
considerably larger than those of the other. Mr, SWAYNE. _ 
It is certainly to be wished that some person would cultivate 
varieties in order to ascertain their more accu- 
tately. Var. 3 with cap-shaped leaves differs ag much in 
its habit and in its flowering head from —— 
MEDICA’GO. Pistil bent, pressing down the keel 
and springing out of it with a jerk: S. vess. 
a legumen, compressed, bent, or twisted 
ly: 
spiral 
M. fog in bunches : legumens narrow; regular, twist- 
ed: stem upright, smooth. 
Kniph. 8—Clus, ii. 242. 2-Lob. obs. 498. 1, and ic. ii. 36. 2 
=Ger, em. 1189. 2—Park. 1114. 1H. ox. ii. 16, row 1, 
2-and ii, 15, row 3e II.~7. B. ii, 378. I. 
Stems scored, declining. Branches alternate. Stipule spear- 
ending in an awn. Leaf stalks short. Leafits 3 toge- 
ther, elliptical, entire at the base, serrated upwards, the mid-rib 
into a thorn-like point, slightly downy above, smoot 
scored with veins underneath, on leaf-talks, that of the tes- 
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sati'va. 
