296 
Oil Clover Allies as Fodder Plaids. 
crop has occupied the land during the whole of the wanner part 
of the year, 1 have seldom obtained much ripened seed ; and 
although according to Dr. Voelcker his analysis shews that 
Lupines contain fully as much flesh-forming matters as the best 
linseed cake, and a larger amount of ready-made oil than peas, 
beans, and other leguminous plants, there is reason to believe 
that the seed so analysed was of foreign growth, and more perfect 
than that usually raised in this country. The bitter principle 
in the seeds may be of use in pharmacy, but neither the seed 
nor the light hairy-woolly foliage is of sufficient importance 
to render the Lupine at all a valuable acquisition to either 
our Cereal or Fodder List. 
VL — Anthyllis — Lady's Fingeks. 
Having written upon the varieties of A. vulneraria so recently 
as last year — see ' Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,' 
Vol. n., s. s., part 1., page 161 — I have little to add, except that 
the plots then reported upon are now exhausted, so that it is not 
so permanent as I had once conceived. 
The general results of my experiments lead to the conclusions 
— 1st. That lady's-flngers can be much improved by cultivation. 
2nd. That this plant can only be grown to a profit in tolerably 
good soils. 3rd. That when repeatedly sown on poor land it is 
apt to be too hairy and vapid either for green feed or the rick. 
Vn. — Melilotus — IMelilot. 
Of this genus we have two native species, namely : — 
Melilotus officinalis, Yellow Melilot. 
Melilotus leucant/ia, White Melilot. 
Yellow Melilot, which is often met with quite as a weed in 
our corn-fields, is also a frequent inhabitant of waysides and 
waste places. In cultivated land White Melilot is found less 
frequently. The seeds of the so-called Bokhara Clover from 
Asia, and the Cabool Clover from India, are larger than those of 
our White Melilot and produce large succulent plants nearly a 
yard high, but apt to get hard and woody with age. 
The Yellow Melilot is smaller, and not inclined to be woody ; 
but both species are remarkable for yielding a bitter aromatic 
principle, identical with that of Fenugrozc seeds, so much used 
lor flavouring cattle foods. 
Reasoning upon this subject induced me to try a slight ad- 
mixture of Melilot in mixtures of " seeds " — Ray and Clovers ; 
the object being to impart additional flavour to seed hay, which 
is often less aromatic than meadow ha}', the latter being flavoured 
