WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
lateral leaflets are drawn toward each other, and the 
third closes against their edges. 
YELLOW MELILOT. YELLOW SWEET CLOVER 
Medlilatus officinalis. Pea Family. 
About all that has been said of the White Sweet 
Clover applies in a general way to this species. The 
principal difference, of course, is the yellow flowers. 
If anything, this member of the family is rather more 
bushy toward the ground. The branches are widely 
spreading, and the plant flowers more lowly than the 
white species. It possesses the same sweet-scented 
properties, and the leaflets are rounded at the tip and 
not nicked. The parts of the corolla are nearly the 
same length, while those in the white flowering species 
have one of the parts — the standard — much longer 
than the other parts, which are known as the wings and 
keel. ‘The seed pods of the Yellow Melilot are prom- 
inently cross-ribbed. Old English names for this plant 
are Balsam Flowers, Heart’s Clover, King’s Crown, 
and Heartwort. It ranges throughout the same 
territory as its white kinsman, and seems to be more 
common along the coast. At night two of the three 
leaflets close together, face to face, and the third one 
closes against them. 
BLACK MEDIC. BLACKSEED. HOP CLOVER. 
BLACK TREFOIL 
Medicago lupulina. Pea Family. 
A small, downy annual having a remote resem- 
blance to the Yellow Clover. Its slender, twisted stalk 
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