PEA FA Mir, V 



flowers small, yellow, sub-sessile, in dense oblong heads ; pods 

 black, kidney-shaped, i seeded. Resembling: some of the smaller 

 Clovers, from which it may be distinguished by its pods not being 

 enclosed within the calyx. In pastures ; common. — Fl. June — 

 xVugust. Annual or biennial. 



5. ISI. deniicu/dta (Toothed iMedick). A glabrous species ; 

 leaflets inversely heart-shaped ; stipules jagged ; fiowe?'s yellow, 

 solitary, or 2 — 5 together ; pods in 2 or 3 loose spiral coils, with 

 a double row of spines. — Sandy places ; rare. — Fl. April — August. 

 Annual. 



6. ]\f. aral'ka (Spotted Ahidi;;k). 

 — A glabrous species ; leaflets in- 

 versely heart-shaped, with a purple 

 heart-shaped spot in the centre ; 

 stipules toothed ; flowers yellow, 

 solitary, or 2 — 4 together ; pods in 

 2 — 6 compact spiral coils, with a 

 double row of spines, forming a 

 jjrickly ball. — On gravelly soil in 

 the -south and west of England ; 

 not unconuuon. In ('ornwall, 

 under the name of Spotted Clover^ 

 this plant is considered very in- 

 jurious to pasturage. — Fl. May — 

 September. Armual. 



7. 2\r. mini ma (Little But- 

 Medick). — A downy prostrate 

 species ; leaflets inversely egg- 

 shaped ; stipules slightly toothed ; 



flowers yellow, solitary, or 2 — 6 

 together ; pods in 4 or 5 compact 

 spiral coils, with a double row of 

 sjjmes. — Sandy places ; rare. — Fl. 

 May — July. Annual. 



MELILOTl'S ALTisSIMA 



{Comnwn Ydlovj MalUot). 



7. Melil6tus (Melilot). — Tall, annual or biennial, fragrant 

 herbs, with leaves as in the preceding genera; small, drooping, 

 yellow or \AaXs, flowers in long racemes ; calyx 5-toothed ; stamens 

 diadelphous ; pods short, straight, indehiscent.' (Name of Greek 

 origin, from meli, honey, and lotos, the plant so called.) 



T. M. altissima (Common Yellow i\Ielilot). — An erect, branched, 

 slightly woody plant, 2 — 3 feet high ; leaflets light green, linear- 

 ovate, toothed; flenvers small, yellow, in long, erect, i-sided 

 racemes ) pods compressed, ovoid, acute, hairy, black when ripe, 



