358 MEDICAGO DENTICULATA MELILOTUS, TOURNEFORT. 



great fondness for it. It seeds freely every year. Crab grass 

 occupies 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 are loosely spiral and deeply reticulated. 



A writer in the American Agriculturist 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. 

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

 slightly adhering to the petiole, often cut. Flowers 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 oi^ 

 (cumarin) rendering them objectionable to stock. Warm and 

 temperate regions of the old world. 



Melilotus officinalis, Willd. Yellow Melilot, Sweet Clover. 

 This ' -, an annual or biennial with yellow flowers, apparently 

 of little importance except for bees. 



Melilotus alba, Lam. White Melilot, JBokara Clover, 

 Sweet Clover. An erect, branching, woody, annual or biennial 

 2-6 or 8 ft. high. Leaflets truncate. Flowers small, white, in 

 long racemes. Pods black when ripe. 



FIG. 135. Medicago lupulina, L, (Black Medick.) Portion of a plant in flower and 

 in fruit, natural size. (IT. S. Agrl. Kept.) 



