falca’ta. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Medicago. 
one the longest. Frwit-stalks from the bosom of the 
‘eave es, longer than the leaves. Bunches thick. Pedicles shorts 
Floral-leaves aw\-shaped, ‘1 at the base of each pedicle. Cal. 
nearly smooth ; teeth-awl-shaped, nearly equal. Bloss. purple. 
Legum. twisted spirally with 2 or 3 distant turns. WoopwaRd. — 
Lucern Medick. Meadows, pastures, and dite banks. 
P. June, July.* 
M. Flowers in bunches :; legumens dresvent-strapell stem 
prostrate. vad 
FI. dan. 233—Kniph. 11—Riw. tetr. 84, Falcata ;-H. ox. ike 
16. row 1,1, and ii. 15. row 3. 1—Clus, ii. 243. 1-Ger. 
em. 1191. 8—Park, 1114. 3-¥. B. ii. 383. 2. 
Stems cylindrical, smooth, slightly nee declining. Sui- 
ar-shaped, almost all at t he base, and some 
almost at the top of the branches, with 1 or,2 teeth on the outer 
edge. Leaf-stalks short. Leaves smooth, 3 together; /eafts 
elliptical or wedge-shaped, entire at the base, serrated 
projecting thorn-like point. Fruit-stalks longer than the leaves. 
Bunches rather loose. Floral-leaves awl-s - Cal. slightly 
downy ; teeth awl-shaped, equal. Bloss. yellow or ‘purple. Legum. 
crescent-shaped, terminated by a long claw. Seeds 5 or 6, com- 
pressed, fixed to the inner suture. ego 
—s Medick. Butter-jags. Balks of cornfields, and od 
—e Between Watford and Bushy-Hill. Ray.— 
orwich, plentifully. Mr. Ross [and Mr. Wooownna) Duly A 
* Modern writers pos penensmgef strongly pecan! the cultivee 
this plant, for the purpose of feeding catt x bee it is not bee a8 
st be though i in the neighbourhood o of Tork n peopje seem 
be soil; a in such, will 
comeadae . flourish toss years, pee Ps Peo ever, tf kept free from w' 
One pound of Lucerne-seed contains storm 150,000 seeds ha 
posing only one seed in three to vegetate and to survive accidents, one 
pound would produce 59,000 plants. Millar adduces various pei 
tacts relative to its utilit ty, and we have ascertained that halt acre of 
then prov es a powerful dit 
orses occasion the staghtrs: Pigs eatts it ‘preedilys aa cows rs fatten 
on it. 
an barren. sandy .places it is well worth the trouble of 
fe thing: for “ purpose of making hay. A practice long seg aucoate 
some pa 
rts of Sweden, Cows, horses, goats, and sheep eat it. 
