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CHAPTER XX. 



ON THE CLOVER ALLIES. 



Besides the clovers proper, there are many native 

 plants of the same natural order that have been found 

 useful as fodder : these it is now proposed to comment 

 upon, premising that as we have had them all under 

 cultivation, we are enabled to discuss their merits 

 from a practical point of view. 



Of these, the following is a list of the genera : — 



I. TJlex. — A spinous shrub. 



II. Anthyllis. — Mowers in a dense head, with 



white expanded calyces. 



III. Lotus. — Mowers in lax heads ; pod straight, 



many-seeded. 



IV. Medicago. — Mowers various ; pod spirally 



twisted. 



V. Melilotus. — Mowers in spikes, drooping to 



one side ; pod straight, few-seeded. 



VI. Onobrtchis. — Mowers in spikes, drooping; 



pod wrinkled, one-seeded. 



VII. Vicia. — Mowers single or spicate in the axils 



of the leaves ; pod straight, many-seeded. 



VIII. Lathyrus. — Mowers one or many on long 



footstalks. 



I. Ulex — Furze. 

 A genus of shrubby, spinous, pea-flowered plants, 



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