24 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Specie3 II.— Medicago eu-falcata. 



Plate CCCXXXVI. 



M. falcata, Fries, Mant. III. p. 93. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 75. Gr. & Godr. 

 Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 383. 



Flowers in a short corymbose raceme, yellow ; standard streaked 

 with dark brown lines. Pod twisted on its axis, not coiled, nearly 

 straight or falcate. 



In sandy and gravelly places. Rare. In Cambridgeshire, 

 Norfolk, and Suffolk, growing with M. sylvestris. It has been 

 also reported from Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Hertford, 

 Glamorgan, Yorkshire, and Durham ; but the greater number of 

 these stations are either mistakes, or the plant has been perhaps 

 introduced with ballast or otherwise. 



England. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, diffusely branched. Leaves elliptical 

 or strapshaped-elliptical, i to | inch long, denticulate at the apex. 

 Flowers f inch long, bright yellow, in small head-like racemes 

 about :j- to f inch long. Pod ^ to f inch long, generally very 

 slightly curved upwards, and never forming more than a semicii'cle. 

 Seeds closely resembling those of M. sativa, but rather smaller. 

 Plant bright-green, slightly pubescent. 



The original figure in English Botany (which is retained in 

 the present edition) certainly represents this plant, but the ripe 

 pod added below is that of M. sylvestris, and has doubtless been 

 drawn from a different specimen, so that a new drawing of the pod 

 has been made. 



Yellow Lucerne. 



French, Luserne en Faucille. German, Sichelformiger SchneckenMee. 



Thi.s plant has been but little cultivated in England, but in Switzerland is grown 

 to some extent as a fodder crop, being there considered hardier than Lucerne. Ita 

 nutritive qualities are probably equally great. 



Section II.— LUPULINiE. Gr. & Godr. 



Pod 1-seeded, indehiscent, kidney-shaped, with the empty apex 

 coiled into a small helix, without spines and without a concentric 

 extra-marginal nerve. 



SPECIES III.— MEDICAGO LUPULINA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXXXVIL. 



Rootstock none. Stems spreading or procumbent. Leaflets 

 roundish, inversely-deltoid at the base. Elowers in axUlarv stalked 



