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lUEDICA'GO* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Diade'lphia f, Deca'ndriA. 
Natural Order. Legumino's.e, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 345. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 174. — Lindl. Syn. p. 75. ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of 
Bot. p. 87. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 532. — Sm. Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 
259. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 509. — Don’s Gen- Syst. of Gard. and 
Bot. v. ii. p. 91. — Legumina'ceaj, Loud. Arb. Brit. p. 561. — 
Papiliona'ce^J, Linn. — Rosales; sect. Cicerin^; subsect. 
Lotianas ; type, Lotacea: ; subtype, Lotid.e ; Burn. Outl. of 
Bot. pp. 614, 638, 642, & 644. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, of 1 sepal, somewhat cy- 
lindrical, with 5 straight, pointed, nearly equal teeth, permanent, 
unchanged. Corolla (fig. 2.) of 5 petals, deciduous ; standard 
(fig. 3.) egg-shaped, ascending, undivided, with a short broad claw ; 
wings (fig. 4.) obovate, cohering by their lower edges ; keel (fig. 5.) 
of 2 combined petals with separate claws, oblong, blunt, depressed 
by the swelling germen, and finally spreading widely from the 
standard. Filaments (fig. 6. ) 10 ; 9 united almost to their summits 
into one split compressed tube ; the tenth hair-like, distinct. An- 
thers small, roundish. Germen stalked, oblong, compressed, in- 
curved or spiral, enfolded by the filaments, starting elastically from 
the keel, and forcing back the standard, terminating in a short, 
awl-shaped, straight, ascending style. Stigma terminal, minute, 
simple. Legume (fig. 8.) compressed, inflexed, falcate, or spirally 
twisted, of 1 cell, and 2 valves. Seeds (fig. 9.) several, often nu- 
merous, kidney-shaped, smooth. 
Distinguished from other genera in the same class and order, 
by the falcate or spirally twisted Legume. 
Seven species British. 
MEDICA'GO SATFVA. Cultivated Medick. Purple Lucerne. 
Burgundy Trefoil. Horned Clover. 
Spec. Char. Stem upright, smooth. Leaflets oblong, toothed. 
Clusters upright. Legumes smooth, slightly spirally twisted. 
Engl. Bot. t. 1749. — Mart. FI. Rust. t. 48. — Linu. Sp. PI. p. 1096. — Huds. FI. 
Angl. (2nd ed. ) p. 330. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iii. pt. n. p. 1404.— Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. 
p. 795. ; Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 317. — With. (7th cd. ) v. iii. p. 865.— Gray’s Nat. Arr. 
v. ii. p. 604. — Lindl. Syn. p. 82. Hook. Brit. FI. p. 333. — Macr. Man. Br. Bot. 
p. 52. — Abb. FI. Bedf. p. 164. — Dickson’s Pract. Agricul. v. ii. p. 875. t. 20. — ■ 
Davies’ Welsh Bot. p. 72. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 347 — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 220. — 
Johnst. FI. of Berw. v. i. p. 165. — Winch. H. of Northumbl. and Durh. p. 49. — 
Loud. Encycl. of Agricul. (2nd ed. ) p. 877. parag. 5574, with a figure. — Baxt. Lib. 
of Agricul. and Horticul. Knowl. (2nd cd. ) p. 418.— Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and 
Bot. v. ii. p. 168. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 216.- — Perry’s PI. Varvic. Selects;, p. 
63. — Bab. Bl. Bath. p. 12. — Xrv. Loud. FI. p. 179. — Luxf. Reig. FI. p. 65. — Mack. 
Catal. PI. Irel. p. 68. ; FI. Hibern. p. 80. — Trifolium Buryundiacum, Johns. 
Gerarde, p. 1189. 
Localities. — In meadows, pastures, hedges, ditch-banks, and the borders of 
fields, in dry calcarious soils, but scarcely a native. — Bedfordsh. Pastures.com- 
Fig. 1. — Calyx. — Fig. 2. A separate Flower. — Fig. 3. Standard. — Fig. 4. One 
of the Wings. — Fig. 5. The Keel. — Fig. 6. Stamens. — Fig. 7. Style. — Fig. 8. Le- 
gume. — Fig. 9. Seeds. 
* So called by Tournrfort from Medica, the more proper name of the plant, 
( medike of Dioscoridbs,) it having been originally introduced into Greece by the 
Mbdks, in the time of Darius Hydastes. Withering. 
+ Sec folio 77, note t. t Sec folio 117, note J. 
