156 
25. LEGTJMUfOSJE. 
plaited , plaits arched or circular parallel close crotcded large and 
imbricated. — Desf. ii. 193 ; Moris Sard. i. 463. t. 59 ; WB. ! ii. 
67, 68; /3, DC. ii. 189; Kocli 184. Trifolium Mel. segetalis 
Brot. ii. App. 484; DC. ii. 187. — Herb. arm. Mad. reg. 1, £. 
PS. reg. 2, •§. Cornfields in Mad. to tlie W. of Funchal above 
the Gorgulfio, Praia, &c., and on P ta de S. Louren^o ; in PS. 
general, as between the town and Fonte d’Area, halfway up 
Pico do Facho, P. do Concelho, in the Serra de Fora, &c. 
March-May. — Habit much the same as in M. parviflora, but a 
somewhat smaller stifler-branclied almost inodorous or at least 
much less strongly-scented pi., scarcely above 6-12 in. high. 
It is further distinguished by the much narrower more evenly 
sharply and finely toothed lfts. which are 6-10 lines long, 1-3 
broad, the more ovate or less wedge-shaped form of those of 
the lower 1., the toothed or jagged stip., the larger fl. (nearly as 
large as in M. Lippoldiana ) in much shorter laxer fewer-fid. rac. 
terminated by a rather long mucro or barren prolongation of the 
rachis, and above all by the large and elegantly circularly ribbed 
or plaited pods. These are always 1-seeded in Mad., 14 line in 
diarn., more compressed or flattened than in either of the other 
2 sp., especially than in 31. Lippoldiana , and not mucronulate 
beaked or bordered. Seeds orbicular slaty-brown or blackish, 
prominently and distinctly granulate, angular, with a deep 
groove in the middle from the prominent large radicle. Fl. 
bright-y. turning mostly pale in drying like those of 31. par- 
viflora. 
11. Medicago L. 
Sect. i. Lupularia Ser. in DC. — Fl. racemose or spicate ; pods 
kidney-shaped, sickle-shaped or subspiral unarmed, the 
edge or margin entire. — St. erect or prostrate. L. 3-nate. 
Fl. y. rarely v. 
1. M. LUrULINA L. 
More or less pubescent ; st. procumbent or ascending spread- 
ing widely ; stip. obliquely ovate-acuminate, the upper entire 
the lower slightly toothed ; lfts. roundish-obovate or obcuneate 
denticulate notched and mucronato at top, entire downwards; 
spikes many-fl. short dense oval; fl. very small and shortly 
stalked; pods 1-seeded compressed kidney-shaped somewhat 
turgid with the point spiral, rugose with arcuate prominent 
branched veins. — -Brot. ii. 112 ; Buch ! 198. no. 416 ; EB. t. 971 ; 
Sm. E. Fl. iii. 318; DC. ii. 172 ; Seub. Fl.Azor. 48. no. 366; Bab. 
74. M. lupulina «, Koch 177. 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, £. Waste ground about the Quinta 
do Valle near Funchal ; moist grassy spots along the whole 
S. coast on or below the sea-cliils, as at the Arco de Calheta, 
Paul do Mar, &c. Irregularly at almost all seasons throughout 
