28 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
numerous long scattered articulated hairs on the stem, petioles, 
stipules, peduncles, and calyx. 
Spotted Medick. 
French, Luserne Tachée. German, Arabischer Schneckenklee. 
SPECIES VL—MEDICAGO MINIMA. Lam. 
Pruate CCCXL. 
Rootstock none. Leaflets narrowly wedge-shaped, truncate or 
obcordate. Stipules half-ovate, entire or with a few short teeth 
on the margins. Flowers few, in shortly-stalked, lax sub-umbel- 
late heads. Pods coiled into a spiral of 38 to 5 turns, globular, 
scarcely compressed, the coils becoming gradually smaller towards 
the apex, not reticulated, but with very indistinct veins on the 
faces; their back narrow, with a single nerve and a very broad 
lateral furrow on each side of it (7.e. between the dorsal and extra- 
marginal nerves). Spines in 2 rows, slightly spreading, straight, 
most of them with a small hook at the summit. Seeds numerous, 
reniform, with a small tubercle at the hilum. Plant thickly 
covered with short stiff hairs. 
In dry sandy places. Rare. Confined to the South-east of 
England, where it certainly occurs in Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, 
Essex, and Cambridge. It has been reported from other counties, 
but probably erroneously. 
England. Annual or biennial. Spring and Summer. 
A small plant, with numerous rigid prostrate stems, 2 inches 
to 1 foot long. Leaflets rarely above + inch long, very narrow. 
Flowering peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2- to 5-flowered. 
Flowers yellow as in the preceding species, but smaller, about § inch 
long. Pods } to + inch in diameter, resembling small burrs with 
the spines generally longer in proportion than in the preceding 
species; extra-marginal nerve very remote from the dorsal nerve, 
having a broad shallow furrow interrupted by the bases of the 
spines. Plant greyish-green, with the stems stouter in proportion, 
and with shorter internodes than in M. maculata. Pods much 
smaller, about the size of a sweet-pea seed. 
Little Bur Medick. 
French, Luserne Naine. German, Kleinster Schneckenklee. 
