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I — 2-seeded. While drying, this ptant smells like woodruff, or 

 new hay. — "Waste places ; not uncommon. — PI. June — August. 

 Annual or biennial. 



2.* M. alba (White Melilot), differing in having smaller white 

 JI(>7ChTS and smooth poi/s, is much IJsss common and doubtfully 

 nati\'e. — Fl. July, August. Biennial 



3.'' M. offidudlis, a biennial species, with pale yellow or white 



TRtFOLIOJI STKfCTl-M, S r CTEKRAnE U 51 , RI^TE\.;, nn.i AR Vl! NSF. 



Jhnvcrs and smooth /-vA', becoming ohvc brown when ripe; 

 and 



4."" J/ hii/iui, a small, slender annual with \ery small [lalc 

 yellow //()Z('(v-j,- and smooth, globose /'th/s, becoming oli^■e-green 

 when ripe, occur in waste places. 



8. Trifolium (Clover, Tref(.il).-r-Hcrl)s with lernale Icairs : 

 .V //////« adnata to tlie petiole ; y/./K'tv.v- sessile or sub-sessile, in 

 heads or spikes, rarely solitary, red, white, or rarcb- yellow ; .v^/r.v 

 unequally 5-tOollK:d ; /cta/s persistent : .vA?OT(7/,v diadel[)hous ; j^fld 



