LEGUMINOSEAE (PULSE FAMILY) 



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leaflets 7 to 11, oblanceolate ; flowers in a long raceme, purplish-blue; 

 pods broad, very hairy with 5 or 6 seeds. Sandy soil. May, June. 



TrifoUum; a. T. pratense, Red clover; 6, T. 



rcpens. White clover. 



TRIFOLIUM 



Tufted shrubs with mostly palmately, 3-foliolate leaves. Flow- 

 ers in heads or spikes. Keel short and obtuse and the loth 

 stamen more or less sep- 

 arate from the others. 

 Pods small, often included 

 in calyx. 



T. pratense, Red Clover. 

 Stems ascending , some- 

 what hairy; leaflets oval or 

 obovate, often notched at 

 end and marked on upper 

 side by pale spots; stipules 

 broad, bristly-pointed ; flow- 

 ers sessile in dense ovoid 

 heads; corolla magenta to 

 whitish. Fields and mead- 

 ows. 



T. repens. White Clover. • Stem smooth, slender, spreading and 



creeping; leaves inversely heart-shaped; stipules scale-like, narrow; 



petioles and peduncles very long ; flowers stalked in short heads ; calyx 



much shorter than the white corolla. Fields and 



roadsides. 



T. hybridum, Alsike Clover. Like the last, but 

 stems erect or ascending; leaflets ovate, rounded at 

 apex ; flowers rose-tinted. 



MELILOTUS 



Herbs, fragrant in drying, with pinnately 3.- 

 foliolate leaves. Flowers, as in trifolium, but in 

 spike-like racemes. Pod ovoid, wrinkled and 

 longer than the calyx. 

 M. officinalis. Yellow Melilot. Upright, usually 

 . tall ; leaflets obtuse, closely serrate ; petals yellow, 

 n'aUs"'YeUow °^ nearly equal length; pod prominently cross- 

 meiiiot. ribbed. Waste ground. 



