318 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Medicago. 



M. sylvestris. Rail Syn. 333. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 383./. 



M. sylv6sti-is frutescens, &c. Moris, v. 2. 157. sect. 2. t. 16.jf. 1 . 



M. flavo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 243./. 



M. flore luteo. Clus. Pann. 759./. 



Falcata. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t.8-i. 



Trifolium luteum, siliqua cornuta. Ger. Em. 1191./. 



On dry gravelly banks and old walls. 



Between Watford and Bushy-hill, by the foot-way. Doody. In 

 Cambridgeshire. Relhan. Common about Norwich, in dry gra- 

 velly fields, and on many parts of the city walls ; also about 

 Bury St. Edmund's. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root long and woody. Habit like the preceding, but the nume- 

 rous stems are procumbent, spreading every way, hairy. Leaves 

 and stipulas much like M. sativa. The clusters are usually 

 shorter and more dense, but this varies according to exposure 

 or luxuriance. Fl. generally pale yellow, but occasionally vio- 

 let, and more frequently green, evidently from a combination of 

 these two colours. Legumes black, downy, sickle-shaped, not 

 twisted into a screw, as in the sativa. Seeds from 4 to 8, kid- 

 ney-shaped, yellowish. The growing germen liberates itself 

 with a spring from the keel, by which the pollen is dashed about 

 the stigma by the time the rudiments of the seeds are perfected. 



This species is perhaps as good fodder as Lucerne, though less 

 succulent, and from its position less accessible to the scythe. 



3. M. lupulina. Black Medick, or Nonesuch. 



Spikes ovate, erect. Legumes kidney-shaped, rugged and 

 veiny, single-seeded. Stem procumbent. 



M. lupulina. Linn. Sp.Pl. 1097. Willd. v. 3. 1406. K. Br. 796. 



Engl. Bot.v. 14. t.97\. Curt.Lond.fasc.2.t.57. Mart. Rust. 



t.l9. Sincl.ed. 2. 323. Hook. Scot. 220. Fl. Dan. i.992. 

 Medica n. 380. Hall. Hist. u. 1 . 1 65. 

 Melilotus minima. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 8. 

 M. lutea minima hirsuta procumbens, spica breviore densissimfe 



disposita, seminis pericarpio renali nigro, Moris, v. 2. 162. sect. 



2. t. 16./. 8. 

 M. minor. Trag. Hist. 593./ 



Trifolium luteum lupulinum. Raii Syn. 331 . Ger. Em. 1 186./ 

 T. pratense luteum. Fuchs. Hist. 819. f. Ic.473.f. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 2. 380./ Dalech. Hist. 1355./ 

 T. agrarium. Dod. Pernpt. 576./ 

 ^. Fl.Br.797. 

 Medica polycarpos, fructu minora compresso scabro. Raii Syn. 333. 



In meadows, pastures, and cultivated fields, very common. 

 /3. Among corn in Peckham fields, plentifully. Doody. NearPad- 

 dington, and behind Pindar's-end, near Enfield. Dillenius. 



