144 POPULAR FLORA. 



4. Rabbit-foot C. Silky, low, erect, and branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers whitish, 



in dense and soft-sillty oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arvense. 



5. Yellow C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. 



T. agrdrium 

 JHelilot (or Sweet-Clover). Melilbtus. 



Blowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling after flowering. Pod roundish and small, like 

 an 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 Melilot. Le:inets obovate or oblong, obtuse; corolla light yellow. M. officinalis. 



2. White 51. Leaflets as if cut off square at the end ; corolla white. M. alba. 



Medick. iledicago. 



Flowers like those of Jlelilot, 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. 



1. LucELXE, or Purple Medick. Stems upright from a deep perennial root ; 



leaflets obovate-oblong ; flowers purple in short racemes ; pods spiral. 

 Cultivated for green fodder. M. sat'wa. 



2. Black il. Stems reclining ; leaflets wedge-obovate ; flowers yellow, in 



short spikes; pods curved (Fig. 358), wrinkled, turning blackish. Waste 

 grounds. J/. lupuVina. 



3. Snail jM., with 2-flowered peduncles, is sometimes cultivated in gardens, on account of its singular 



pods coiled like a shell (Fig. 359). M. scittelldta. 



• 

 Everlasting.Pea or Vetchling. Ldthyrvs. 



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. odoralm. 



3. Garden Everlasting-Pea. Root perennial ; flowers many, pink or purple. L. luiifuVms. 



* * Wild species, with perennial roots and more than one pair of leaflets. 



3. Marsh 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. pulustris. 



4. Pale 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. ochroleiicus. 



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. venosus. 



6. Beach 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 Bumerous 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. TuFTKD V. Downy ; leaflets many, lance-oblong, strongly mucronate ; flowers crowded, bent 

 down in the spike, blue, turning purple, summer. Thickets, N. V. Cracca. 



