312 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 



WHITE SWEET CLOVER. WHITE MELILOT. 



Melilbtus cilba. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Pulse. White. Leaves., fragrant. General. July-September. 



Flowers: small, clustered in spike-like racemes. Corolla: papilionaceous. 

 Leaves: divided into three obovate, toothed leaflets, notched at the apex. Stem: 

 two to four feet high ; upright ; branching ; leafy. 



Mr. Gibson observed that at night two of the three pretty 

 leaflets of the white sweet clover close and the third one, he 

 says, " is left out in the cold." 



When dried the foliage has a fragrance like new-mown hay 

 and is antagonistic to moths. It is also used as a substitute for 

 snuff and tobacco. 



YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. YELLOW flELILOT. 



Melilbtus officindlis. 

 Were it not for a slight shortness in height and the blunt- 

 ness of the leaves, we might fancy the yellow sweet clover to 

 be the same species as the white one ; and that it had simply 

 amused itself by wearing a different coloured gown, and follow- 

 ing the popular whim for variety. We must, however, conclude 

 that they are sisters of equal sweetness and grace. 



It was by a shady roadside 



My own sweet clover grew, 

 Where the low stone wall is broken 



And the pasture comes in view. 



I bent o'er to pick the wilding, 



When hark, was that a sigh .-' 

 I'll leave it where God has placed it, 



Thought I, as I sauntered by. 



BLUE VETCH. 



Vic I a Crdcca. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Pulse. Blue Scentless. Mostly north and west. June-August. 



Flowers : growing closely together on one side of a long spike. Calyx : 

 short, with unequal teeth. C^r<3//a .• papilionaceous. Leaves: pinnate, divided 

 into ten to twelve pairs of smooth, oblong leaflets. The common petiole 

 terminating in a tendril. 



