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medica racemofa^ P. 1114. Many-friilted McdickJ I 
with fmall flat rough fruit. It has about ten fmall i 
fiat fruit on one pedicle, not prickly, but . rough, | 
with feveral tubercles, inftead of fpines. In Feck- \ 
hcim fields, near Paddington ; and behind Finder* % ' 
end) near Enfield. 
6 . Medica marina fupina nojlras.^ foliis viri dibus 
cd fummos ramulos villofis., R. 334. Forte Medico 
marine fpinof^ fpecies^ G. E. 1200* Medica rna^ 
rina major minor fpinofa., P. 1115. Procum- 
bent Sea Medick, with green hairy leaves at the tops l 
of the branches. [ 
Lotus, Birdsfoot Trefoil. It hath three leaves at i 
' the top of each pedicle, and two at the bottom : f 
The flower is papilionaceous : The pod is fome- * 
times divided into cells by a tranfverfe partition, | 
and contains feeds almofl round. The fpecies 1 
are : 
1. Lotus corniculata glabra minor R. 334. Lotus i 
feu Melilotus pentaphyllos minor glabra., C. 332. \ 
L^rifolium ftliquofum minus, G. 1022. Birdsfoot 3 
Trefoil, or Small Streight-codded Trefoil. Com- * 
mon in paftures. The flialks are flender, branchy, 
and generally lye on the ground : The leaves are fat j 
and pointed : The flowers grow thick together, as i 
it were in an umbel, are yellow, and the flandards « 
large, and vein’d with purple : The flowers are : 
fucceeded by flreight flender pods. 
2. Lotus pentaphyllos minor angujiioribus foliis fru- - 
ticofior, R. 334. An Lotus pentaphyllos frutejcens i 
tenuijfmis glabris foliis, C. 332. The Leflfer 1 
bufhy narrow-leav’d Birdsfoot Trefoil. Among \ 
corn, and in moifl: places. 
3. Loti corniculat^e major fpecies, R. 334. Lo- •. 
tus pentaphyllos flore major elute 0 fplendente, C. 332. 
L*rifolii filiquofi varietas major, G. E. 1190. The ; 
Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil. The flowers are large, * 
yellow, grow on peculiar branches, and, on the c 
top c 
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