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the base ; indeed it scarcely stands erect at any time. The 
pretty leaves are divided into from six to nine pair of oval 
leaflets, and a terminal one. The flowers are in small heads, 
three or four together, white with red lines, and quite minute. 
The curious seed-vessel has been described above, and is 
deserving of observation. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
CALYCIFLORA. FABACES. 
MELILOTUS. (Merator.) 
Generic Character. Seed-vessel with one or few seeds, not 
opening naturally, longer than the calyx. Flowers in a long 
spike. 
MELILoTUs OFFICINALIS. (Plate XV. Fig. 59.) Common 
Yellow Melilot. Bushy places and way-sides produce this 
pretty delicate-looking plant. Its long spikes of small, 
yellow, butterfly-shaped flowers form an exceedingly beau- 
tiful object. The seed-vessel has two seeds, and is wrinkled. 
Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. Stem erect. 
There is a white variety, or species, as some botanists make 
it, called MW. deucantha, which flowers later. 
