e06 368. Medicaffo. 63. LEGUMINOS^. Pl.ex.cal. 



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Sandy pastures ; annual ; June and July. 

 Slem prostrate ; If^aves bald, spotted with black ; Jiowers 

 yellow ; standard nicked, larger than the wing. 



VIII. 369. TRIGONELLA. Linnseus. Fenugreek-trefoil. 

 Calyx bellshape, 5-cut; keel very small; wings and stand- 

 ard slightl}^ spread, appearing like a 3-petaled corolla; le- 

 gumen peduncled, oblong, many-seeded, compressed or 

 cylindrical, pointed, nearly upright. — Stem herbaceous ; 

 leaves ternate; Jiowers axillary and terminal. 



Trigonella ornithopodiodes. Birds-foot fenugreek-trefoil. 



Legumens 2 or 3, peduncled, slightly compressed, rather 

 falcate, 8 or 10-seeded ; stem declined ; leaflets ovate, 

 toothed. 



Fcenugrascum humile repens, ornithopodii siliquis brevibus erectis, 

 RaiiSyn.S3\,\. 



Trifolium Melilotus ornithopodioides, Lin. S. P. 1078. 

 Trigonella. orniihopodioides, De Cand. FL Gall. 3926. 



Barren sandy heaths; annual; June and July. 



Stem prostrate, slightly branched ; leaves bald ; stipiiles 

 lanceolate, connate; pedundes ayJiW^ry^ S-flowered; calyx- 

 teeth bristlelike; standard reddish ; legumen wrinkled, hairy. 



IX. 370. LOTUS. Theophrastus. Birdsfooi-trefoil. 

 Calyx tubular, persisting, 5-cut ; ioi?igs connivent above, 



shorter than the standard ; legume?! oblong, upright, cylin- 

 drical. — Leaves trifoliate; stipules leaflike, ovate, distinct 

 from the petiole. 



1. Lotus corniculatiis. Horned hirdsfoot' trefoil. 



Head depressed, 8 to lO-fiowered; stem decumbent, 



solid ; legumen, spreading, stiff; claiv of the standard ovate. 



Lotus corniculata glabra minor, Rail Syn. 334, !. 

 Trifolium siliquosum mimis, Ger.em. 1190,5, 

 Lotus corniculatus, Lin. S. P. 1092. 

 Small codded trefoil. Milk vsich. 



Fields and pastures ; also cultivated ; perennial ; June to 

 August. 



Stem decumbent; opposite leaflets closed together ; flowers 

 o-old-colour ; standard fulvous ; legumens larger towards 

 the end. — Herb, in moist meadows, makes excellent hay; 

 flowers turn green in drying, likei those of indigo. 



S. tenuifolius. Stem long, slender, rather shrubby; leaves 

 and stipules linear, lanceolate, bald ; legumen slender. 



Lotus pcntaphylliis minor, angustioribiis foliis, frulicosior, Raii Syn. 

 334, 2. 



