LEGUMINOS^. (PDLBE FAMILY.) 93 



places, and even in woodlands. Appearing like a naturalized plant ; but mani- 

 festly indigenous northward. (Eu.) 



* * # Flowers shart-pedicelled in dose heads, reflexed when old: corolla yellow, 

 persistent, turjiing dry and chestnutrbi-own with age, the standard becoming hood- 



7. T. AaRXKiuM, L. (Yellow or Hop-Clovek.) Smoothish, somewhat 

 upright (6' - 12' high) ; leaflets obovat&oblong, ail three from the sanu: point (pal- 

 mate) and nearly sessile ; stipules narrow, cohering loith the petiole for more than 

 hdf its length. @ -^ Sandy fields, Massachusetts to Penn. (Nat. from Eu.) 



8. X. Fsoci^MBENS, L. (Low Hop-Clover.) Stems spreading or as- 

 cending, pubescent (3' - 6' high) ; leaflets wedge-obouate, notched at the end ; the 

 Uueral at a small distance from the other (pinnately 3-foUolate) ; stipules ovate, short, 

 ® — Sandy fields and road-sides, N. England to Virginia. Also var. mInus 

 (T. minus, JRdn.), with smaller heads, the standard not much striate with age. 

 With the other, and Kentucky, in cultivated grounds. (Nat. from Eu.) 



5. 91 £ Li I li 6 TITS, Tom-n. Mblilot. Sweet Clover. 



Flowers much as in Clover, but in spiked racemes, small : corolla deciduous, 

 the wings not united with the keel. Pod ovoid, coriaceous, wrinkled, longer 

 than the calyx, scarcely dehiscent, 1-2-seeded. — Herbs, fragrant in drying, 

 with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves ; leaflets toothed. (Name from /leXi, honey, and 

 Aaros, some leguminous plant.) 



1. M. OFEioiNiLiB, Willd. (Yellow Melilot.) Upright (2°-4° 

 high) ; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse; corolla yellow ; the petals nearly of equal 

 length. @ — Waste or cultivated grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. M. Alba, Lam. (White Mblilot.) Leaflets truncate; corolla white, 

 the standard longer than the other petals. @ (M. leucdntha, £bcA.) — In simi- 

 lar places to the last, and much like it. (Adv. from Bu. ) 



6. MEDICAGO, L. Mediok. 



Flowers nearly as in Melilotus. Pod 1 - several-seeded, scythe-shaped, 

 cm'ved, or variously coiled. — Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules often cut. 

 (Deriv. from MijSik^, the name applied to Lucerne, because it came to the Greeks 

 from Media.) 



1. M. satIva, L. (Lucerne.) Upright, smooth ; leaflets obovate-oblong, 

 toothed ; _^itfers (purple) racemed; pods spirally twisted. 1]. — Cultivated for 

 groen fodder, rarely spontaneous. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. M. LUPULiNA, L. (Black Mbdick. Nonesuch.) Procumbent, pu- 

 bescent ; leaflets wedge-obovate, toothed at the apex ; flowers in short spilces 

 (yellow); pods Udneyform, 1-seeded. © — Waste places; sparingly. (Adv. 

 from Eu.) 



3. M. maculXta, Willd. (Spotted Medick.) Spreading or procum- 

 bent, somewhat pubescent; leaflets obcordate, with a purple spot, minutely 



