100 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Pee 
Root perennial. 1-2 feet high, branched, smoothish. Leaflets half an inch to an 
inch seas lateral ones subsessile, the terminal be petiolulate ; common é one- 
fourth to three- fourths ee an inc on ae Racemes e ) on peduncles half an nck to an 
inch long. Corolla twice as long a the calyx. 
Introduced : Palle ated: Native of. phew #1. June-July, Fr. August. 
Obs. This was formerly cultivated on a sae = as es fosiers but 
it did not find favor with our farmers, and is rely seen in Pe nosy 
vania. might answer, for soiling, in siesta  giviationas tone 
think the stem is too ligneous and wiry to become a favorite fodder, 
essful in No! 
M . 
—— Onobrychis, L., obrychis sativa, Lan. plant of the 
sarum den tsb) § is much ‘cultivated fo for fodder, e@ cal reous soils 
the la 
os Mt Tapa’ na, Le Stem procumbent, pubescent ; leaflets 
he apex ; short spikes, ‘ploy legumes 
iform 1 
1-seeded. 
Hopr-urke Mepicaco. Black Medick. Nonesuch. 
Biennial? Stem 6-12 inches long, somewhat bias bed Lancegnr 78 Leaflets 32 
pone to rit an inch long, sometimes nearly rhomboi ‘agora eB of an inch 
to an inch in length. Heads of fieors at is vot roundish, vtdaity obo oblong, on slender pedun- 
cles 12 inches long. ie, mapa oe “ees 
Fields, &c. Nat. from Europe. June- ~~ 
Obs. This species which, when in owes resembles a yellow clover, 
is quite common in pastures in England, and is a = turalized in 
this country. Several other wanecids recognized by t heir spirally —_ 
_ are sometimes found in waste places, their seeds having 
juced in wool. 
5. ROBI’NIA, ZL. Locusr-rrer. 
[Name in honor of John and Vespasian Robin ; French Botanists.] 
: short, 5-toothed, slightly 2-ipped. _Vexillum large and ire 
scarcely lo: nger than the wings a nd keel. Legume compressed, 
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