358 MEDICAGO DENTICULATA— MELILOTUS, TOITRNEFORT. 



great fondness for it. It seeds freely ever}' year. Crab grass 

 occixpies the ground from June to October after the Medick has 

 seeded. 



Medicago denticulata, Willd. Burr-Clover. — This annual 

 much resembles the last and is often confounded with it. The 

 pods arc loosely spiral and deeply reticulated. 



A writer in the American AgriculturiM for 1878 speaks highly 

 of the plant. 



Burr-Clover grows wild all over the plains and foot-hills, and 

 affords much pasture. Even the burrs grow in such profusion 

 that they afford a good supply of dry concentrated food. They 

 collect, by force of the wind, in the hollows of the ground. It 

 is tenacious of life and will bear close feeding. 



MELILOTUS, TOURNEFORT. MELILOT. 



Annual or biennial, fragrant when bruised or in drying. 

 Leaven pinnately 3-foliolate, nerves ending in teeth ; stipules 

 slightly adhering to the petiole, often cut. Flotvers small, yel- 

 low or white, in long, loose axillary racemes. Calyx-teeth 5, 

 nearly equal. Petals deciduous ; keel shorter than the wings, 

 obtuse. Anthers uniform. Pod with one or few seeds, small, 

 straight, thick, indehiscent. Plants abound in an etherial oil 

 (cumarin) rendering them objectionable to stock. Warm and 

 temperate regions of the old world. 



Melilotiis officinalis, Willd. Yellow Melilot, Sweet Clover. 

 — This ' ' ii.n annual or biennial with yellow flowers, apparently 

 of little importance except for bees. 



Melilotiis alba, Lam. White Melilot, Bokara Clover, 

 Sweet Clover. — An erect, l)ranching, woody, annual or biennial 

 2-0 or 8 ft. high. Leaflets truncate. Flowers small, white, in 

 long racemes. Pods black when ripe. 



YiG.l'Xy.—Medk'ayolupxdina, L, (Black iVIediek.) Portion ot a plant in flower and 

 in Iruit, natural size. — (U. S. Agrl. Rept.) 



