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The flowers are fmall and yellow; and they 
gtow in little cluflers, rarely more than two or 
three together. _ 
The feed-veffels are very {mall, and the feeds 
~ minute. 
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Hop Trefoil-with ferrated leaves. 
Trifolium lupulinum foliis dentatis. 
The root is long, flender, brown, and hung 
with many redith fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, of a pale 
green, a foot and half high, and not much 
branched. 
The leaves ftand at confiderable diftances by 
threes, and they have flender footftalks : they are 
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It is frequent in dry paftures, 
July. 
Ray calls it Trifolium lupulinum minimums a 
name ufed alfo by moft others, 
and flowers in 
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of an oval figure, fharply ferrated at the edces 
and of a faint green. ae 
The flowers are fmall, and of a faint brownith 
yellow : they ftand together in oval heads, which 
are formed of brown cups. 
The feed-veffels are fhort, and the feeds brown 
and large. : 
It is frequent in hilly places in the warmer 
parts of Europe. 
C, Bauhine calls it 274folium montanum lupulinum. 
IV, 
MELIL OT. 
MELILOTUS. 
HE flower is papilionaceous, and fimall. 
the carina is fmall. 
cup. The cup is hollowed at the bafe, and 
The vexillum is bent back, the alz are fhort, and 
The feed-veffel is a pod, formed of a fingle piece, and is longer than the 
divided into five fegments at the edge. 
The leaves 
ftand three together, and the flowers are produced in loofe fpikes. 
Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria; the threads being ten, 
in two affortments, 
But he creates much confufion, by joining it with the /agopus, and other three-leaved plants, under 
the common generical name of érifolium, 
Dil WVislkisol: ONa ot 
1. Common Melilot. 
Melilotus vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, redith, divided into 
feveral parts, and hung about with fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, of a freth 
green, upright, branched, and a yard high. 
The leaves ftand in threes, and have flender 
footftalks : they are oblong, fharp-pointed, and 
of a frefh and delicate green. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a gold yellow : 
they ftand in lcofe fpikes of a confiderable length 
at the tops of the ftalks, and on pedicles rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feed-vefiel is oblong, and the feeds are 
Jarge and brown. 
It is common in many parts of England in 
pafture-grounds, and under hedges; and fome- 
.times gets among the corn, unhappily for the 
farmer. It flowers in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Melilotus officinarum Ger- 
mania, Others, Melilotus vulgaris. 
It is famous as a refolvent and digeftive, out- 
wardly applied. 
In pultices it will be of great ufe againft hard 
fwellings, ripening them, and at the fame time 
taking off the pain. 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
The old authors have written much of it; and 
many years it was an ingredient in the plaifter 
ufed for dreffing blifters. At prefent it is re- 
jected from that compofition ; not for its want 
of efficacy, but to prevent mifchievous frauds ; 
thofe who made the plaifter frequently putting in 
verdigreafe, to give the colour which would not 
be obtained from the plant but with confiderably 
more trouble. 
2. Small Melilot, 
Melilotus odoratus flore ceruleo. 
The root is fmall, 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, erect, branched, and 
ten inches high, 
The leaves ftand in threes; and they are fhort, 
broad, and of a pale green, 
The flowers are fmall and yellow: they ftand 
in oblong heads at the tops of the ftalks, and 
on pedicles rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, 
The feed-veffels are {mall, and very numerous : 
they hang in a kind of Joofe fpike. 
It is common in our paftures, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
Tragus calls it Melilotus minor. Others impro- 
perly, Trifolium lupulinum minus Semine multo. 
and furnifhed with many 
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