144 POPULAR FLORA. 



4. Rabbit-foot C. Silky, low, erect, and branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers whitish, 



in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Connnon in poor dry land. T. arvcnse. 



5. Yellow C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. 



T. agrai-ium- 

 Melilot (or Sweet-Clover). Mdilblus. 



Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling after flowering. Pod roundish and small, like 

 an akene, hardly opening, containing only one or two seeds. — Annuals or biennials, with sweet-scented 

 foliage; leaflets three, toothed. Growing in gardens and around houses. 



1. Yellow Melilot. Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse; corolla light yellow. M. officinalis. 



2. White M. Leaflets as if cut oli' square at the end ; corolla white. M. alba. 



Medick. Aledicago. 



Flowers like those of Melilot, either few or many in a cluster. Pod curved or coiled, either kidney- 

 shaped or rolled up spirally in various ways. Leaves of 3 leaflets. 



1. Lucerne, or Purple Medick. Stems upright from a deep perennial root; 



leaflets obovate-oblong ; flowers purple in short racemes ; pods spiral. 

 Cultivated for green fodder. 3f. satkva. 



2. Black M. Stems reclining ; leaflets wedge-obovate ; flowers yellow, in 



short spikes; pods curved (Fig. 358), wrinkled, turning blackish. Waste 

 gi'ounds. M. lupuVina. 



3. Snail ]\L, with 2-flowered peduncles, is sometimes cultivated in gardens, on account of its singular 



pods coiled like a shell (Fig. 359). M. scuttllala. 



Everlasting-Pea or Yetchling. Ldthyrus. 

 Lobes or teeth of the calyx not leafy. Style flattish. Otherwise the flowers nearly the same as in 

 the true Pea. 



* Garden species, cultivated for ornament; with winged stems and only one pair of leaflets. 



1. Sweet Pea. Root annual; flowers 2 or 3 on a long peduncle, sweet-scented L. odoraiiis. 



2. Garden Everlasting-Pea. Root perennial ; flowers many, pink or purple. L. lutifulius. 



* * Wild species, with perennial roots and more than one pair of leaflets. 



3. IiIaksh E. Stems lightly winged or margined; leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, lance-linear or lance-oblong; 



stipules lance-shaped ; flowers 2 to 5, purple. IMoist ground, N. L. palustris. 



4. Pale E. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, ovate, pale; stipules rather large, half heart-shaped ; flowers 7 to 10, 



cream-color. Banks and thickets, W. & N. L. ochroltiicus. 



5. Yeiny E. Leaflets 5 to 7 pairs, oblong or ovate ; stipules very small ; flowers many on the peduncle, 



purple. Shady banks, S. & W. L. venosus. 



6. Beach Pea. Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, oval or obovate; stipules large and leafy; flowers 6 to 10 on the 



peduncle, purple. Shore of the sea, N. and of the Great Lakes. L. maritimus. 



Vetch or Tare. Vicin. 

 Like the last, but with small and usually more numerous leaflets; and the thread-shaped style hairy 

 round the end or down the outer side. 



* Perennials, all wild species: flowers small, in a raceme on a long peduncle. 

 1. Tufted V. Downy ; leaflets many, lance-oblong, strongly mucronate ; flowers crowded, bent 

 down in the spike, blue, turning purple, summer. Thickets, N. T'. Cracca. 



