DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Medicago. 321 



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6. M. minima. Little Bur Medick. 



Stalks many-flowered. Stipulas half-ovate, nearly entire. 

 Leaflets obovate, hairy. Legumes oi'bicular, with a double 

 row of hooked spines. 



M. minima. Willd. Sp. PZ. «. 3. 1418. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. n. 35. 



Comp. ed.AA 25. With. 660. Hull 2 1 9. 

 M. polymorpha minima. Linn. Sp. PI. 1099 jw-. Fl. Br. 798 |3. 



Fl.Dan. i. 211. 

 Medica n. 383 a. Hall. Hist. v.\.\ 66. 



M. echinata minima. Raii Syn. 333. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 386./. 

 Cochleata fructu echinato minimo. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t.88.f. 14. 



In sandy fields, but rare. 



At Navburgh, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Near Newmarket. Mr. 

 D. Turner. 



Annual. June, July. 



A small prostrate species, clothed in every part with fine, soft, 

 • rather silky hairs. Stipulas either quite entire, or with a few 

 shallow teeth. Leaflets obovate, or roundish, with a few teeth 

 at the extremity only. Fl. 4, 5, or more, in each cluster, yellow, 

 with a very hairy calyx. Legumes either hairy or smooth, glo- 

 bular, small, of 3 or 4 convolutions, bordered with a double row 

 of hooked spines, spreading in opposite directions. 



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