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i — 2-seeded. While drying, this plant smells like woodruff, or 

 new hay. — Waste places ; not uncommon. — Fl. June — August. 

 Annual or biennial. 



2.* M. alba (White Melilot), differing in having smaller white 

 flowers and smooth pods, is much less common and doubtfully 

 native. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



3.* M. officinalis, a biennial species, with pale yellow or white 



trif6lium strictum, subterrAneum, repens, and arvense. 



flowers and smooth pods, becoming olive-brown when ripe; 

 and 



4.* M. indica, a small, slender annual with very small pale 

 yellow flowers and smooth, globose pods, becoming olive-green 

 when ripe, occur in waste places. 



8. Trifolium (Clover, Trefoil). — Herbs with ternate leaves ; 

 stipules adnate to the petiole ; flowers sessile or sub-sessile, in 

 heads or spikes, rarely solitary, red, white, or rarely yellow ; calyx 

 unequally 5-toothed ; petals persistent ; stamens diadelphous ; pod 



