216 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Medicago. 



Per. June. 



Stems much spreading, leafy, angular, with close-pressed hairs, 

 Li. alternate, hairy, leafl. in threes: a pair of leafy stip. at the 

 base of their common stalk. Leafl. inversely egg-shaped, acute. 

 Fl.-stalks axillary, solitary, very much longer than the Is. Fl. 

 two to five, fine yellow, as they fade, turning orange, a leaf at 

 the base of the fl.-head ; keel pale yellow, striped with red at 

 the base. CaL-teeth, spaces between rounded. Leyume shining 

 purple. 

 FL greenish when dried ; plant worthy of cultivation, pasturage 



for sheep : makes good hay. 



L. major. Great B. Heads flattened at tlie top, many- 

 flowered. Stems erect, tubular. Legumes drooping, 

 cylindrical. Claw of the standard linear. Shorter 

 filaments not dilated. E. B. 2091. Var. C. villo- 

 sus. Sb. 



Wet, busily places, osier holts, hedges. 



Per. June. 



Stem one to tw'O, or three f., hairy, like the Is. FL six to twelve, 

 duller orange than in Lot. corniculatus. CaL-teeth, spaces 

 between, narrow and acute, not rounded, as in Lot. cornicu- 

 latus. 



L. tenuis. (H. Br, Fl.) Slender B. Heads depressed, 

 umbellated, from six to ten flowers. Stem prostrate, 

 slender. Leaflets spear-shaped. Flower-stalks very 

 long. Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. E. B. 

 Suppl. 2615. L. decumbens. Smith's E. Fl. 



Meadows, fields. * In the broad, green-swai'd path, leading 

 off the Cowley road, near the gate up to the Asvluni. R. W. 

 1832. 



Per. June, August. 



Discrim. The general slenderness of the plant, and its spear- 

 shaped leaflets, from L. cornic. and L. major. 



MEDICA'GO. Medick. 



(* M. sativa. Purple M. or Lucerne. Clusters 

 upright. Legimies spiral. Stem erect, smooth. E. 

 B. 1749. TrifoHum Burgundiacum. G. E. 1189. 



Hedges, pastures, borders of fields. Grafton, Warwickshire. Pn. Fl. 



Per. June, July. 



Fl. violet. Perhaps a variety of ]\L falcata.) 



M. lupulina. Black 31. or Nonesuch. Spikes egg- 

 shaped, erect. Legumes, (pods) kidney-shaped, rugged 



