420 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



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CROTALABIA SAGITTALIS, L. Rattlebox. 



Flowers in racemes, commonly yellow, stem erect, branching. Leave? 

 oblong laneolate, stipules united and decurrent on the stem, legumes 

 much inflated. Plant hairy. Valuable, g owing abuDdantly in the 

 State in sandy soil. June and September. Good. 



MELILOTUS ALBA, Lam. ( White Melttote, not indigenous. 

 Cultivated as forage. 



TBIFOLIUM PBATENSE, L. (Red clover already described.} 



TBIFOLIUM ABVENSE, l*-(Rabbtijoot clover.} 

 Annual, silky, erect, heads cylindrical. No use. 



TRIFOLIUM BEFLEXUM, L (Buffalo clover.) 



Biennial; stems ascending, downy; leaflets obovate, oblong finely 

 toothed. Stipules thin, ovate; pods 3-5, seeded. Valuable. Round 

 Nashville. 



TBIFOLIUM BEPENS, L-( White clover.) 

 Universally known. 



TBIFOLIUM CABOLINIANUM, Michx--(CWma clover. 

 Small, procumbent, corolla purplish. Does not afford much forage. 



MEDICAGO LUPULINA, I*-(Black Medick.) 



Stem procumbent. Heads of flowers roundish, inch diameter, pal 

 yellow. Abundant in dry pastures. Sheep feed on it. It is introduced 

 from Europe and an annual. May and August. 



PSOBALEA MELILOTOIDES, 



Calyx 5, a cleft, persistent, the lower lobe longest. Pod strongly 

 wrinkled; leaves pinnately 3-folialate stem erect, 2-3 feet high. Peren- 

 nial. Very good for all stock. Common. 



PSOBALEA SUBACAULIS, Torr and Gray. 



Nearly stemless; leaves palmate, 7-folialate Root with a tuber. 

 Flowers purple, in May. Cattle feed on it. Nashville, rare. 



PETALOSTEMON FOLIOSUS, Gray.-(Lea/y Prairie Clover}. 

 Perennial. Flowers in a spike, rose-colored Stem erect, smooth ; 



