412 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



cle remote from the other petals : the filaments 

 are dilated at the apex : the anthers ftand on pe- 

 dicles : the pods are an inch long, of a reddifh 

 brown color, fmooth, fhining and divaricated, 

 or fpreading out from one another. 



The plant varies with hairy and fmooth leaves and 

 calyces. 



It is an excellent fodder for cattle, and would pro- 

 bably be well worth attention in agriculture. 



The infed called bv Linnaus TWRX^S s^lauca fome- 

 times renders the flowers tumid and monftrous. 



MEDICAGO. Gen. pL 899. 

 Legumen comprelTum, cochleatum. Carina corolla 

 a vexillo defie^tens. 

 Jupulina i. MEDICAGO fpicis ovalibus, leguminibus renifor- 

 mibus monofpermis, caulibus procumbentibus. 

 Lin.fyji, nat. p. 506. Sp. pL 1097. (Ger, em. 

 1186. / 5. Rivin. t. 8.) 

 Melilot Trefoil. Anglis. 



In corn fields and paftures frequent. ^ . VI-VIII. 

 The ftalks are numerous, branched, from eight 

 inches to a foot long, and lie proftrate on the 

 crround : the leaves are ternate, of a variable 

 figure, being either oval, heart-ihap'd orroundifh, 

 finely ferrated, foft, a little hairy, and fupported 

 on footllalks : the peduncles are axillary, and 

 bear an oval, imbricated head of fmall yellow 

 flowers : the vexillum is large, aval, reflex'd, ?.nd 

 hides the other petals : the feed-veflfels grow in 



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