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longest. Flower-heads in pairs at the ends of the branches, with 

 large palmated bracts ; flowers small, and varying in colour from 

 yellow to deep red, calyx hairy ; pod from 1- to 3-seeded. Mead- 

 foot Cliffs. Daddyhole Plain. Petit Tor. Watcombe. (E. B. t. 

 104.) P. vi.-vni. 



TRIBE II. TRIFOLIE&. 

 MEDICAGO. MEDICK. 



1. M. lupulina (black Medici;, or Nonsuch.) In waste places 

 and pastures, abundant. Stems spreading, from 1 to 2 feet long, 

 more or less hairy ; leaflets obovate ; flower-stalks long ; flowers 

 small, numerous, yellow, in dense oval spikes. Pods small, kidney- 

 shaped, turning black when ripe, scarcely spiral, 1-seeded. Mead- 

 foot. Ilsham. (E. B. t. 971.) A. v.-vm. 



2. 3MI. maculata (spotted M.) In cultivated and waste places. 

 Yery much, in habit, like the last, but having obcordate leaflets 

 marked in their centre with a purple spot. Flower-stalks from 

 1- to 4-flowered ; pods compressed, and making 2 or 3 spiral turns, 

 armed with 2 rows of spreading, curved prickles. Banks at Mead- 

 foot. Ilsham. Hope's Rose. (M. polymorpha, E. B. t. 1616.) 

 A. v.-vm. 



3. M. minima (little Bur-Medick) In open pastures and 

 waste places, rare. Like the last, but more compact and smaller, 

 softly hairy or downy ; flower-stalks from 1- to 6-flowered. Le- 

 gumes smaller and nearly round, with 2, 3, or 4 close spiral turns, 

 and edged with a double row of hooked spines. Banks by the 

 cliff- walks between Meadfoot and Hope's Nose. (E. B. S. t. 

 2635.) A. v. 



MELILOTUS. MELILOT. 



M. officinalis (common yellow Melilot.) By roadsides, on 

 banks, and in bushy places. Plant generally erect, branched, from 

 2 to 4 feet high ; leaves on long leafstalks, distant ; lower leaves 

 with roundish leaflets ; leaflets of the upper leaves nearly linear. 

 Flowers in loose lateral racemes, bright yellow; pods ovate, 

 pointed, wrinkled, and hairy. Babbicombe. Lanes about Bar- 

 ton. Watcombe. Trifolium, Sm. (E. B. t. 1340.) A. or B. 

 YI.-VIII. 



