24, ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sun-Specres I1.—Medicago eu-falcata. 
PurateE COCXXXVI. 
M. falcata, Fries, Mant. III. p. 93. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 75. Gr. & Godr. 
Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 383. 
Flowers in a short corymbose raceme, yellow; standard streaked 
with dark brown lines. Pod twisted on its axis, not coiled, nearly 
straight or falcate. 
In sandy and gravelly places. Kare. In Cambridgeshire, 
Norfolk, and Suffolk, growing with M. sylvestris. It has been 
also reported from Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Hertford, 
Glamorgan, Yorkshire, and Durham; but the greater number of 
these stations are either mistakes, or the plant has been perhaps 
introduced with ballast or otherwise. 
England. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high, diffusely branched. Leaves elliptical 
or strapshaped-elliptical, to ? inch long, denticulate at the apex. 
Flowers 2 inch long, bright yellow, in small head-like: racemes 
about + to ? inch long. Pod % to # inch long, generally very 
slightly curved upwards, and never forming more than a semicircle. 
Seeds closely resembling those of M. sativa, but rather smaller. 
Plant bright-green, slightly pubescent. 
The original figure in English Botany (which is retained in 
the present edition) certainly represents this plant, but the ripe 
pod added below is that of M. sylvestris, and has doubtless been 
drawn from a different specimen, so that a new drawing of the pod 
has been made. 
Yellow Lucerne. 
French, Luserne en Faucille. German, Sichelformiger Schneckenklee. 
This plant has been but little cultivated in England, but in Switzerland is grown 
to some extent as a fodder crop, being there considered hardier than Lucerne. Its 
nutritive qualities are probably equally great. 
Section II.—LUPULINA. Gr. & Godr. 
Pod 1-seeded, indehiscent, kidney-shaped, with the empty apex 
coiled into a small helix, without spines and without a concentric 
extra-marginal nerve. 
SPECIES III—MEDICAGO LUPULINA. Linn. 
Puare CCOXXXVIL. | 
Rootstock none. Stems spreading or procumbent. Leaflets 
roundish, inversely-deltoid at the base. Flowers in axillary stalked 
