
312 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 
WHITE SWEET CLOVER. WHITE MELILOT. 
Meltlotus dlba. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pulse. White. Leaves, fragrant. General. July-September. 
Flowers : small, clustered in spike-like racemes. Coro//a: papilionaceous. 
Leaves: divided into three obovate, toothed leaflets, notched at the apex. Stem: 
two tofour feet high ; upright; branching ; leafy. 
Mr. Gibson observed that at night two of the three pretty 
leaflets of the white sweet clover close and the third one, he 
says, “isileft‘out in the colds” 
When dried the foliage has a fragrance like new-mown hay 
and is antagonistic to moths, It is also used asasubstitute for 
snuff and tobacco. 
YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. YELLOW IIELILOT. 
Melilotus offictnales. 
Were it not fora slight shortness in height and the blunt- 
ness of the leaves, we might fancy the yellow sweet clover to 
be the same species as the white one; and that it had simply 
amused itself by wearing a different coloured gown, and follow- 
ing the popular whim for variety. We must, however. conclude 
that they are sisters of equal sweetness and grace. 
It was by a shacy roadside 
My own sweet clover grew, 
Where the low stone wall is broken 
And the pasture comes in view. 
I bent o’er to pick the wilding, 
When hark, was that a sigh ? 
T’ll leave it where God has placed it, 
Thought I, as I sauntered by. 
BLUE VETCH. 
Victa Cracca. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pulse. Blue Scentless. Mostly north and west. June-August. 
Flowers: growing closely together on one side of a long spike. Calyx: 
short, with unequal teeth. Corol/a : papilionaceous. Leaves : pinnate, divided 
into ten to twelve pairs of smooth, oblong leaflets. The common petiole 
terminating in a tendril, 

