ddd POPULAR FLORA. 
4. Rassir-root C. Silky, low, erect, and branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers whitish, 
___ in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arvénse. 
5. YeLtow C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. 
T. agrarium. 
Melilot (or SWEET-CLovER). Melilotus. 
Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling after flowering. Pod roundish and small, like 
fth akene, hardly opening, containing only one or two seeds. — Annuals or biennials, with sweet-scented 
foliage; leaflets three, toothed. Growing in gardens and around houses. 
1. YELLow Metixor. Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse; corolla light yellow. MM. officinalis. 
2. WuitrE M. Leaflets as if cut off square at the end; corolla white. MM. alba. 
; Medick. Medicago. 
Flowers like those of Melilot, either few or many in a cluster. Pod curved or coiled, either kidney- 
shaped or rolled up spirally in various ways. Leaves of 3 leaflets. 
i. Lucerne, or Purpte Mepicn. Stems upright from a deep perennial root; 
leaflets obovate-oblong ; flowers purple in short racemes ; pods spiral. 
‘Cultivated for green fodder. MM. satiwa. 
2. BLack M. Stems reclining ; leaflets wedge-obovate; flowers yellow, in 
short spikes; pods curved (Fig. 358), wrinkled, turning blackish. Waste 
grounds. M. lupulina. 
8. Snaiu M., with 2-flowered peduncles, is sometimes cultivated in gardens, on account of its singular 
_ pods coiled like a shell (Fig. 359). MM. scutellata. 
Everlasting-Pea or Vetchling. Ldthyrus. 
Lobes or teeth of the calyx not leafy. Style flattish. Otherwise the flowers nearly the same as in 
the true Pea. 
* Garden species, cultivated for ornament; with winged stems and only one pair of leaflets. 
1. Sweet Pea. Root annual; flowers 2 or 3 on a long peduncle, sweet-scented L. odoratus. 
. GARDEN EvERLAstTinc-PEA. Root perennial; flowers many, pink or purple. L. latifolius. 
es 
* * Wild species, with perennial roots and more than one pair of leaflets. 
8. Marsu E. Stems lightly winged or margined; leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, lance-linear or lance-oblong; 
stipules lance-shaped; flowers 2 to 5, purple. Moist ground, N. L. pahistris. 
4. Pate E. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, ovate, pale; stipules rather large, half heart-shaped; flowers 7 to 10, 
cream-color. Banks and thickets, W. & N. L. ochroleicus. 
5. Veiny E. Leaflets 5 to 7 pairs, oblong or ovate; stipules very small; flowers many on the peduncle, 
purple. Shady banks, S. & W. L. vendsus. 
6. Brac PEA. Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, oval or obovate; stipules large and leafy; flowers 6 to 10 on the 
peduncle, purple. Shore of the sea, N. and of the Great Lakes. L. maritimus. 
Vetch or Tare. Vicia. 
Like the last, but with small and usually more numerous leaflets; and the thread-shaped style hairy 
round the end or down the outer side. 
* Perennials, all wild species: flowers small, in a raceme on a long peduncle. 
1. Turtrep V. Downy; leaflets many, lance-oblong, strongly mucronate ; flowers crowded, bent 
down in the spike, blue, turning purple, summer. Thickets, N. V. Cracca. 
