968 MELILOTUS. [CLASS XVII. ORDER 111. 
bearing a terminal sub-racemose head of numerous pale yellow 
flowers. Calyx tubular, scattered over with black and white hairs, 
the teeth linear, obtuse, the bracteas lanceolate, shorter than the 
calyx. Legumes ovate, acute, erect, with a sharp point, scattered over 
with short black hairs, and only half divided into two cells. 
Habitat.—Rock with a southern exposure, a little to the north of 
Bradooney, in the Clove Mountains. 
Perennial ; flowering in July.* 
GENUS XI. MELILO'TUS.—Tourn. WMelilot. 
Nat. Ord. Papitiona'cEx. Linn. 
Grn. Cuar. Calyx five toothed. Keel simple, wings shorter than 
the veawillum. Stamens diadelphous. Legumes oblong, or sub- 
globose, coriaceous, one or few seeded, indehiscent.—Name from 
Mel, honey, and Lotus, the genus. 
1. M. officinalis, Lam. (Vig. 1120.) Common Yellow Melililot. 
Raceme lax, becoming elongated; petals nearly equal in length; 
legumes ovate, acuminate, rough, with netted veins, the upper suture 
compressed and downy; leaves acutely serrated, the apex notched ; 
stem erect. ; 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 274.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
79.—Trifolium officinalis, Linn.—English Botany, t. 1340.—English 
Flora, vol. iii. p. 297. 
Root woody, tapering. Stem erect, from two to three feet high, 
angular, striated, smooth, branched, and leafy. Leaves ternate, 
smooth, dark green, petiole slender, the two lateral leaflets nearly 
sessile, the middle one with a longer footstalk, leaflets of the lower 
* GENUS CORONIL'LA.—Linn. Coronilla. 
Grn. Cuar. Calyx short, campanulate, sub-bilabiate, five toothed, the two 
upper teeth half united. Corolla with the keel acuminated into a 
point. Stamens diadelphous. Legumes elongated, straight, or curved, 
cylindrical, or angular. 
1. C. vari'a, Linn.|\Variable Coronilla. Herbaceous, procumbent ; stipules 
lanceolate, free; leaves with about ten pair of oblong obtuse leaflets ; 
peduncles striated, longer than the leaves; flowers about twenty, umbellate ; 
pedicles about three times longer than the calyx. 
Habitat.—Vields and dry pastures, Bury-head, Devonshire, Dr. Bromfield ; 
and at Linton, by the Rev. Mr. Levelt, “in situations apparently wild.” 
Perennial; flowering in June and July. 
We have introduced the characters of this species as a note, fearing that 
it may have only escaped into the above situations from gardens. It is a 
species very common in yarious parts of the Continent, and is frequently 
cultivated as a garden flower. 
