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THE PEAFLOWER TEIBE. 



On dry banks and open places in cen- 

 tral and southern Europe, and central 

 Asia, extending eastward to the Baikal 

 and northward to Sweden. In Britain 

 confined to southern and eastern Eng- 

 land, and rare even there ; quoted also 

 from Ireland, but as scarcely indigenous. 

 FL summer. 



Fig. 231. 



2. Lucern Medick. Medicago sativa, Linn. (Fig. 232.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1749. Lucern.) 



Much like the sickle M., and perhaps 

 only a variety produced by cultivation. 

 It is usually more erect, the flowers are 

 almost always violet or blue, and the 

 pod is spirally twisted so as to form 

 two, or sometimes three, complete rings 

 or coils. 



Apparently of south-eastern origin, 

 but so generally cultivated, that no sta- 

 tion is known for it where it may not 

 have escaped from cultivation. In Bri- 

 tain, certainly introduced only, on the 

 borders of fields, and in pastures. FL 



Fig. 232. 



