WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



lateral leaflets are drawn toward each other, and the 

 third closes against their edges. 



YELLOW MELILOT. YELLOW SWEET CLOVER 



Melilotus officinalis. Pea Family. 

 About all that has been said of the White Sweet 

 Clover applies in a general way to this species. The 

 principal difference, of course, is the yellow flowers. 

 If anything, this member of the family is rather more 

 bushy toward the ground. The branches are widely 

 spreading, and the plant flowers more lowly than the 

 white species. It possesses the same sweet-scented 

 properties, and the leaflets are rounded at the tip and 

 not nicked. The parts of the corolla are nearly the 

 same length, while those in the white flowering species 

 have one of the parts — the standard — much longer 

 than the other parts, which are known as the wings and 

 keel. The seed pods of the Yellow Melilot are prom- 

 inently cross-ribbed. Old English names for this plant 

 are Balsam Flowers, Heart's Clover, King's Crown, 

 and Heartwort. It ranges throughout the same 

 territory as its white kinsman, and seems to be more 

 common along the coast. At night two of the three 

 leaflets close together, face to face, and the third one 

 closes against them. 



BLACK MEDIC. BLACKSEED. HOP CLOVER. 

 BLACK TREFOIL 



Medicago lupullna. Pea Family. 



A small, downy annual having a remote resem- 

 blance to the Yellow Clover. Its slender, twisted stalk 



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