372 AUTUMN FLOWERS AND FRUITS. 



without spines, rooting at the base ; leaves trifoliate, the leaf- 

 lets broadly-oblong; flowers axillary, solitary, stalked, pink, 

 the standard streaked with darker lines; pods ovate, erect, 

 shorter than the calyx. Barren sandy places. Fl. June to 

 September. 



O. antiquorum : stem erect or ascending, bifariously hairy, 

 usually spinous; leaves trifoliate, the leaflets oblong; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, stalked, pink ; pods ovate, erect, longer than 

 the calyx. Barren places and pastures. Fl. June to Sep- 

 tember. 



(14) Melilotus. MELILOT. 



M. officinalis : annual or biennial ; stem erect, 2-3 feet 

 high ; leaflets serrate, truncate, narrowly ovate ; stipules se- 

 taceous, entire ; flowers in lax lateral racemes, yellow ; corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, the wings keel and standard equal ; 

 pods ovate-acute, hairy. Waste places. Fl. June to Sep- 

 tember. 



M. alba : stem erect, 3-4 feet high ; leaflets obovate, the 

 upper ones oblong, serrate, obtuse ; stipules awl-shaped, entire ; 

 flowers white, in lax racemes ; corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx, the wings and keel equal, shorter than the standard ; 

 pods ovate-obtuse, glabrous. Sandy and gravelly places. Fl. 

 July to September. 



(15) Trifolium. CLOVER. 



* Flowers stalked, white. 



T, repens : stems creeping ; leaflets obovate or obcordate, 

 often with a dark spot at their base ; flowers in roundish heads, 

 white, the standard striated ; peduncles axillary, longer than 

 the leaves, the flowers at length deflexed; calyx glabrous. 

 Dutch or White Clover. Meadows and pastures. Fl. May to 

 September. 



