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-Leaves with only 3 leaflets. 
-Calyx ending in 2 lips, each very shortly (or scarcely. 
| at all) toothed. J 
| Cyt'isus scopa’rius. room. 
ag © alyx with 5 distinct teeth. 
“Keel” (the lowest, folded petal) of corolla sharply 
pointed ; flowers with a leaf below each one. } 
| Ono'nis. est-harrow. 
-Keel blunt ; flowers in heads or clusters. 
_Flowers in long, slender clusters, white or yellow, 
| often very sweet-scented. } 
| Melilo’tus. 
-Flowers in short clusters, or heads. 
Fruit (‘pod’) much curved or _ spirally | 
| twisted. | i SE 
| Medica'go. JMJedick. ) as 
“Pod straight, or very nearly. 
Flowers 2-5 together, white tinged with flesh-- 
f salou: pod much longer than the calyx; 
| plant not hairy. | 
Trigonella purpuras’cens. 
~Flowers many together, or, if few, yellow aS 
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pale straw-colour; pod shorter than the 
calyx. Trifolium. Clover. 
Leaves with 5 or more leaflets. 
-Flower-head with a divided leaf or bract close below it 
on the stalk. 
Flowers several in the head, 3 inch long or more ; 
( calyx swollen, enclosing the pod. 
| Anthyl'lis Vulneraria. XK idney Vetch. 
-Flowers usually 2 or 3 together, about } inch; pod 
not enclosed. 
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Ornith’opus perpusil'lus. 
Flow er-head without a divided bract below it. 
-Flowers rosy, veined, the lateral petals (“wings”) 
minute and almost hidden. 
Onob'rychis sati'va. Sazn/orn. 
~Flowers yellowish or purple, the “wings” con- 
spicuous, not hidden. 
(is yellow, spreading horizontally; pod ene 
| notched. J 
L Hippocre'pis como'sa. HHorse-shoe Vetch. 
Flowers dull-yellow or purple, erect; pod vee) 
notched. 
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Astrag’alus. J7/ilk Vetch 
