32 BULLETIN 428, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
M. -falcata sativa Schur (35). 
This is given as equal to Medicago subfalcata of Schur. 
M. lilacea Hy (27, p. 432). 
Stems prostrate; branches elongated; flowers violet; pods falcate or 
forming a complete circle. Locality: River Loire, France. . 
M. spuria Hy (27, p. 481). se 
Stems robust, decumbent; flowers variegated, yellow and violet, decidu- 
ous after flowering; the few pods that are formed usually having two coils. 
Locality: River Loire, near Ponts-de Ce, France. The author states that 
this is a hybrid of J/. cyclocarpa and M. sativa. 
M. cyclocarpa Hy (27, D. 431). 
Stems prostrate; flowers golden yellow or finally variegated with blue or 
violet; pods coiled, forming about one spiral. Locality: River Loire, be- 
tween Laumur and Nantes, France. 
M. varia pseudosativa Rouy and Foucaud (51, p. 14). 
Pods large, glabrescent. Locality: Alpes-Maritimes, France. According 
to the authors, this is a hybrid of VW. sativa and M. falcata, resembling the 
female parent and equaling WM. spuria of Hy. 
M. varia pseudofalcata Rouy and Foucaud (51, p. 15). 
Pods large, glabrescent, with one coil. Locality: Alpes-Maritimes, France. 
M. silvestris erectiuscula Rouy and Foucaud (951, p. 12). 
Stems ascending; corolla yellow, not variegated; pods generally semi- 
circular, glabrescent, or glabrous. Locality: Not specified. 
Botanical names that have been applied to species and varieties whose origin 
and relationship to M. falcata are not clear. 
M. glomerata Balbis (5). 
Pods coiled, hairy ; stems erect; leaflets and flowers very much like those 
of the ordinary J/edicago falcata; pods glomerate, villous; corolla yellow. 
Locality : Nice, France. 
M. falcata annularis Ser. (57, p. 172). 
Leaflets narrower and smaller than in ordinary J/edicago falcata; pods 
very much arched, aimost spiral. Locality: Not indicated. 
M. procumbens viscosa Reich. (49). : 
Pods falcate, glandular viscous; flowers bright yellow; seeds 2 to 6. 
Locality : Saxony, near Dresden. 
M. annularis Bess. 
This plant is usually referred to as equaling WM. falcata annularis of 
Seringe. Besser’s description was not available, and it is doubtful whether 
it was ever published. Koch (30) states that he has seen a specimen from 
Besser in Schultes’s collection. Other authors refer to a description of M. 
annularis in Besser’s Prim. Fl. Gal. (9), but this is evidently an error, as 
no reference is made to such a plant in that work. 
M. falcata glandulosa Koch (30). 
Pods with scattered, articulated hairs, which are provided with a gland 
at the end. Locality: Not specified. 
M. falcata viscosa Urban (62, p. 57). 
Pods glandular haired, straight or sickle shaped; flowers yellow. Lo- 
eality : Not indicated. 
M. glandulosa procumbens Schur (56, p. 172). 
Flowers golden yellow, in loose racemes; pods more or less faleate or 
almost straight, with inflated glandular hairs; stems prostrate. Locality: 
Spielberg, Austria. 
