606 368. Medicago. 63. LEGUMINOSiE. PI. ex. cal. 
Sandy pastures ; annual; June and July. 
Stem prostrate ; leaves bald, spotted with black ; flowers 
yellow ; standard nicked, larger than the wing. 
VIII. 369. TRIGONELLA. Linnaeus. Fenugreek-trefoil. 
Calyx bellshape, 5-cut; keel very small; wings and stand- 
ard slightly spread, appearing like a 3-petaled corolla; le- 
gumen ped uncled, oblong, many-seeded, compressed or 
cylindrical, pointed, nearly upright. — Stem herbaceous ; 
leaves ternate; flowers axillary and terminal. 
Trigonella ornithopodiodes. Birds-foot fenugreek-trefoil. 
Legumens 2 or 3, peduncled, slightly compressed, rather 
falcate, 8 or 10-seeded ; stem declined ; leaflets ovate, 
toothed. 
Fcenugraecum humile repens, ornithopodii siliquis brevibus erectis, 
Raii Syn. 331, 1. 
Trifolium Melilotus ornithopodioides, Lin. S. P. 1078. 
Trigonella. ornithopodioides, De Cand. FI. Gall. 3926. 
Barren sandy heaths; annual; June and July. 
Stem prostrate, slightly branched ; leaves bald; stipules 
lanceolate, connate; peduncles axillary, 3-flowered; calyx- 
teeth. bristlelike ; standard reddish ; legumen wrinkled, hairy. 
IX. 370. LOTUS. Theophrastus. Birdsfoot-trefoil. 
Calyx tubular, persisting, 5-cut; wings connivent above, 
shorter than the standard ; legumen oblong, upright, cylin- 
drical. — Leaves trifoliate; stipules leaflike, ovate, distinct 
from the petiole. 
1. Lotus cornicidatus. Horned birdsfoot-trefoil. 
Head depressed, 8 to 10-flowered; stem decumbent, 
solid ; legumen spreading, stiff; claw of the standard ovate. 
Lotus cornieulafa glabra minor, Raii Syn. 334, 1. 
Trifolium siliquosum minus, Ger.em. 1190, 5. 
Lotus corniculatus, Lin. S. P. 1092. 
Small codded trefoil. Milk vetch. 
Fields and pastures ; also cultivated ; perennial ; June to 
August. 
Stem decumbent; opposite leaflets closed together \ flowers 
gold-colour ; standard fulvous ; legumens larger towards 
the end. — Herb, in moist meadows, makes excellent hay ; 
flowers turn green in drying, like those of indigo. 
3. tenuifoUus. Stem long, slender, rather shrubby; leaves 
and stipules linear, lanceolate, bald ; legumen slender. 
Lotus pentaphylhis minor, angustioribus foliis, fruticosior, Raii Syn. 
