go THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 
being absent in Great Britain from only a few Welsh 
and Scotch counties, and is rare in Ireland. 
This tall, graceful plant is found in most waste 
places, and along the sides of roads and canals, 
where it is frequently well established. Usually it is 
found in such situations that it cannot be regarded 
as a truly native British plant. With it are fre- 
quently found such plants as Poppies, Fumitories, 
Pepperworts, Charlock, Wormseed, and other legu- 
minous plants, such as Lucerne, Sainfoin, Medick, 
and other plants common to farmyards, stackyards, 
cultivated ground, etc. 
The stem is tall, woody at the base, slender, 
much branched, and erect, wiry, and glabrous. The 
leaflets are ovate, oblong, toothed, serrate. The 
stipules are undivided, subulate, lanceolate. 
The yellow flowers are in secund, unilateral 
racemes. The petals are equal, the keels winged. 
The downy pods are acute, black when ripe, and 
contain few seeds, which are rugose. 
Melilot is found to grow in some cases to a height 
of four or five feet. The flowers are in bloom from 
June till August. 
The flower resembles that of Dutch Clover, but the 
calyx is not so long, and wider, so that short-lipped 
insects can get at the honey. The petals also can 
be stretched apart more easily. The ale and carina 
are rotate, the claws not adherent. They return to 
their former position when the pressure is removed 
by aid of two digitate processes. The column of 
