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1(3. LEGUMINOSAO. 



Cultivatecl and spontaneous in places in Mount Lofty 

 Rang;e. Oct. -Feb. — Western and southern Europe. 

 14. T. angrustifolium, 



L. yarrow - leaved Clover. 

 Stiff, erect annual. villou.« 

 witli wliite appressed hairs; 

 leaflets linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute ; stipules long, nar- 

 roAv, with prominent green 

 veins, free part consistins^ of 

 2 long, awlshaped points ; 

 flowers small, pink, in long 

 cylindrical heaxis, terminal, 

 solitary, shortly pedunculate ; 

 calyx - tube with .spreading 

 hair.s seated on tubei'cles. 

 teeth linear-lanceolate, the 

 lowest one the longest, the 2 

 upper ones united near the 

 base, all ciliate except on the 

 sharp point, rigid and spread- 

 ing in fruit; corolla a little 

 longer than calyx. 



Roadsides and pasture, 

 Mount Lofty Range. — Oct.- 

 Doc. — Mediterranean region. Trifoiium angrustifolium. 



5. Melilotus, Adanson. 

 (Greek ineli, honey, and lotos, lotus.) 



Biennial 

 Annual ; 



racemes long- 

 racemes short .. 





arrcnsis 1 

 indica 2 



1. Melilotus arvensis, Walhoth. Firhl Mrlilof. 

 Erect or ascending, glabrous biennial ; leaflets oblong, den- 

 ticulate ; stipules long, awlshaped ; flowers very fragrant, in 

 rather loose racemes, much longer than the leaf ; pedicels 

 about as long as the o-nerved calyx ; standard longer than 

 the wings and keel, which are nearly equal; pod .small, 

 brownish-yellow, drooping, obo\oid, mucronate, tran.sversely 

 furrowed, with a blunt keel on the upper edge; seed 1, 

 smooth. 



The ordinary Euiopean form has yellow flowers, but the 

 variety with white flowers (var. alhifiova, Wallroth; M. 

 I'etitpicrreana, Willd.) seems the only one in South Aus- 

 tralia. It is very like the European and Asiatic J/, aiha, 

 Desrousseaux (Bokhara Clover), but the latter has scentless 

 flowers, a black, net-wrinkled pod, and is sometimes grown 

 here for fodder. 



Gullies and moist places near Adelaide. -Nov. -Apl. — 

 Europe ; Avestern Asia. 



