SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS—LAWSON. 185 
2. MELILOTUS ALBA, Desrousseaua. 
This is a well known plant, often cultivated for bees, and it 
has attracted attention at different times as a source of fibre and 
paper pulp. In rich favourable soils it grows to a great size, 
rising to a height of from 6 to 10 feet, or even more. It is 
much branched, has clean and glabrous stems and foliage, and 
long dense racemes of numerous small white flowers. The wing 
and keel petals are shorter than the standard. ; 
This species grows in great luxuriance about the Grand Trunk 
Railway yards at Toronto, and probably in other parts of Ontario; 
also about Montreal. It is specially a Railway Plant, but its 
range in Canada has not been traced. Being frequently culti- 
vated, it is apt to occur as a “casual,” and, in giving localities for 
it, observers should state explicitly whether the plant has taken 
permanent hold. In Halifax County it has been cultivated in 
gardens for many years, but does not spread. 
Melilotus albu. Desrousseaux, in Lamarck’s Uneyelopedie 
Methodique, Botanique, IV., p. 63, (DC.) (1796)... Reichenbach, 
Fl., Exe, p. 499. Koch, Synops. Fl. Germanice, ed. 2, I., p. 
183. Eat. & Wr. 317. Gray, Manual, Bot. Northern N. 5S., p. 
128. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, L, p. 132. Hook, fil., 
Students’ Flora, Br. Isl., ed. 1, p.90. Watson, Bibliographical In- 
dex N. Am. Plants. I. p. 243. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Plants, L., 
p. 106 (1883). 
Melilotus oficinarum Germanic, flore albo. C. Bauhin 
Pinax, p. 331. Tournefort, Inst. Rei Herbariz, p. 407. 
Trifolium Melilotus officinalis, (b.) Linnzeus, Species Plan- 
tarium, p. 1078. 
Trifolium album. Lois. Flora Gallica, p. 479. 
T. Germanicum, Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, xxxvi. (1819). 
Melilotus officinalis (b.) alba. Persoon, Synopsis, I, p. 348 
(1807). Nuttall, Genera, II., p. 104. 
M. officinalis (b). Aiton fil., Hort. Kewensis, ed. 2, IV., p. 
380 (1812). 
M. vulgaris. Willdenow, Enumeratio Plantarum Horti 
Berolinensis, p. 790 (Koch), (1809). Spreng. Syst., III, p. 206, 
