DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Medicago. 867 
Trefoil Medick. Melilot Trefoil- (Black Nonsuch. Welsh: 
Maglys gwineuddu. E.) Corn-fields, meadows, and pasture. 
A. (sometimes B. E.) May—Aug.* 
Var. 2. Legumes about 10, slightly compressed, rough with numerous 
tubercles. Ray. 
H. Ox. ii. 15. 4. 
Medica polycarpos, fructu minore compresso scabro. R. Syn. 333. Medico, 
cochleata, fyc. H.Ox.ib. The rest of the synonyms in FI. Angl. belong 
to var. 1. St. 
Corn-fields near Peckham, Paddington, and behind Pindar’s-end, near 
Enfield. Ray. 
(M. polymor'pha. 
in g* 
Legumes spiral: stipulae toothed: stem spread-. 
Curt.—E. Bot. 1616. 
Root fibrous, bearing tubercles. Stems prostrate. Leqfits toothed. Sti¬ 
pules in each variety more or less toothed. Peduncles axillary, with two 
or three flowers. Blossoms yellow. Legumes roundish, with many 
spirals, prickly, many-seeded. Seeds kidney-shaped, flatted, perfectly 
smooth. FI. Brit. E.) 
Snail-shell Medick. Heart Trefoil or Clover, Dry sandy pas¬ 
tures, especially on the sea-shore. A. May—June.'b 
(Var. 1. Leafits inversely heart-shaped, smooth, marked above with a 
blackish brown heart-shaped spot. Fruit with widely diverging thorns. 
Legumes flat at the base, narrowing towards the top ; wreathes flat; 
prickles expanding, nearly straight. Blossom standard notched at the 
end, much larger than the other petals. E.) 
Curt. 176— Cam. Hort. 27—Ger. 1021. 4— Ger. Em. 1190. 4— Park. 1115. 
6— H. Ox. ii. 15, row 2. 12— Mart. FI. Rust. t. 76. 
Medicago polymorpha arabica. Linn. Huds. Relh. M. aralica. Curt. 
With. Ed. 3 and 4. Sym. Hull, M. maculata. Sibth. Sm. M. polymor¬ 
pha a. FI. Brit. Wells in Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Meadows, near the 
Hot-wells, Bristol. Mr. S wayne. Sand-pits at Charlton, Kent. Hudson.. 
West of Bridport, plentiful. (Stone quarry in the Pigwells, and near 
* Cows, horses, goats, and sheep eat it; but it is less grateful to them than the other 
species. Linn. It is cultivated in Norfolk under the name of Nonsuch , and is usually 
mixed with Rye-grass ( Lolium perenne). The crop is then called black and white* 
Nonsuch. Mr. Woodward. In the Isle of Wight I have seen it sown along with clover 
and Rye-grass. (It is best adapted to light, deep soils, and may be advantageously sown for 
sheep food in open fields, and helps the land by ploughing in previous to a wheat crop, ai 
practice recommended in Young’s Annals of Agriculture, and approved by Mr. Sinclair, 
But being an annual, the latter authority justly observes, it is only fit for the alternate; 
husbandry ; for to sow the seeds of this plant with others on land intended to remaiafes- 
permanent pasture would be subversive of the intention; as every spot this plksat 
occupied would be naked the second year; and these spots afford encouragement,feo>the 
growth of weeds, and the decaying roots to grubs. The larvae of the brow® moth 
Lasiocampa Medicaginis , Curt. Brit. Entora. pi. 181. feed upon this plant, though not 
exclusively, others of the same tribe likewise suffering from their depredations. E.)> 
'h (A plant much relished by cattle ; but, being an annual, is probably not so> valuable 
for cultivation as some other species. The different varieties are introduced into flower 
gardens on account of the curious shapes of the legumes, called Snail's-horns. Caterpillars, 
&c. Salisbury. E.) 
