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places, and even in woodlands. Appearing like a naturalized plant ; but mani- 

 festly indigenous northward. (Eu.) 



<r # # Flowers short-pedicelied in close heads, refiexed when old: corolla yellow, 

 persistent, turning dry and chestnut-brown with age, the standard becoming hood- 

 shaped. 



7. T. agrArium, L. (Yellow or Hop-Clover.) Smoothish, somewhat 

 upright (6'- 12' high); leaflets obovate-oblong, all three from the sanw, point (pal- 

 mate) and nearly sessile; stipules narrow, cohering with the petiole for more than 

 Iialf its length. (J) — Sandy fields, Massachusetts to Penn. (Nat. from Eu.) 



8. T, procumbens, L. ( Low Hop-Clover.) Sterns spreading or as- 

 cending, pubescent (3' -6' high) ; leaflets wedge-obovate, notched at the end ; the 

 lateral at a small distance from the other (pinnately 3-foliolate) ; slijniles ovate, short. 

 (J) — Sandy fields and road-sides, N. England to Virginia. Also var. Mixes 

 {T. minus, Relh.), with smaller heads, the standard not much striate with age 

 With the other, and Kentucky, in cultivated grounds. (Nat. from Eu.) 



5. 1ELILOTUS, Tourn. Melilot. Sweet Clover. 



Flowers much as in Clover, but in spiked racemes, small : corolla deciduous, 

 the wings not united with the keel. Pod ovoid, coriaceous, wrinkled, longer 

 than the calyx, scarcely dehiscent, 1-2-secdcd. — Herbs, fragrant in drying, 

 with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves; leaflets toothed. (Name from fieXi, honey, and 

 AaroS: some leguminous plant.) 



1. M. officinXlis, Willd. (Yellow Melilot.) Upright (2° -4° 

 high ) ; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse ; corolla gellow ; the petals nearly of equal 

 length, ® — Waste or cultivated grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. M. Alba, Lam. (White Melilot.) Leaflets truncate; corolla ichile, 

 the standard longer than the other petals. @ (M. leuerintha, Koch.) — In simi- 

 lar places to the last, and much like it. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. MEBICAG©, L. Medick. 



Flowers nearly as in Melilotus. Pod 1 - several-seeded, scythe-shaped, 

 curved, or variously coiled. — Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules often cut. 

 {Deriv. from Mtj8iktj, the name applied to Lucerne, because it came to the Greeks 

 from Media.) 



1. M. sativa, L. (Lucerne.) Upright, smooth ; leaflets obovate-oblong, 

 toothed ; flowers (purple) racemed ; pods spirally twisted. % — Cultivated for 

 green fodder, rarely spontaneous. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. M. lupulina, L. (Black Medick. Nonesuch.) Procumbent, pu- 

 bescent ; leaflets wedge-obovate, toothed at the apex ; flowers in short splices 

 (yellow); pods kidney-form, 1-sceded. @ — Waste places; sparingly. (Adv. 

 from Eu.) 



3. M. macdlXta, Willi. (Spotted Medick.) Spreading or procum- 

 bent, somewhat pubescent; leaflets obcordate, with a purple spot, minutely 



