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Description of Legumes 
Melilotus alba Desv (WuHITE SWEETCLO- 
vER)—A _ white-flowered Eurasian biennial, 
also known as Bokhara clover, Bokhara mel- 
ilot, or white melilot, which develops a 
fleshy, somewhat branched taproot the first 
year and a fair top growth the second. 
Vigorous shoots, sometimes 10 feet high, will 
develop from buds near the root crown. 
There is an annual variety (M. alba annua 
Coe) known as Hubam clover or annual 
melilot, which, when seeded alone, grows 5 
to 8 feet high and matures a crop in 5 
months’ time. 
Mimosa biuncitera Benth (CarcLtaw mI- 
MOSA)—A low spiny shrub about 3 feet tall 
with heads of yellowish-white flowers; it 
occurs in dry rocky or sandy situations from 
western Texas to southern Arizona. 
Mucuna deeringiana (FLORIDA VELVET- 
BEAN )—A high-climbing annual, or usually 
so, with large trifoliolate leaves, red to pur- 
plish green or yellow flowers, and dark- 
colored pubescent pods. The velvet hairiness 
of the pods is irritating to the skin of some 
persons. The flowers are a source of honey. 
It is grown principally as a summer forage 
and soil-improving crop in the Southern 
States. 
Olneya tesota Gray (Tresota)—A small 
spiny-branched tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with 
clusters of purplish flowers that appear be- 
fore the pinnate leaves. 
Onobrychis viciaefolia Scop (SAINFOIN) 
—A pinkish-flowered long-lived deep-rooted 
perennial herb of southern Europe, also 
called holy clover and esparcet. The name 
sainfoin means literally “healthy hay,’ and 
in France the plant is much used for hay; 
there as well -as in England it also serves 
as the source of the very finest honey. 
It has not proved very successful as an 
erosion-control plant in this country. 
Ornithopus sativus Brot (SERRADELLA)— 
A slender-stemmed much-branched annual 
with rose-colored flowers, native of Spain 
and Morocco. It is cultivated as a forage 
and green-manure crop in central Europe, 
although used in this country only in ex- 
perimental trials, which have not shown 
promise. 
Oxytropis—A genus of some 200 species 
of perennial herbs and shrubs, which are 
distributed throughout north temperate re- 
gions. About 40 species occur in the United 
States, the great majority of which are na- 
tive to the Rocky Mountains and adjacent 
plains. They are much like Astragalus but 
differ by having the keel of the flower pro- 
longed into a beak. The genus includes spe- 
cies poisonous to cattle, as the crazyweed, 
Oxytropis lambertii Pursh. 
Parosela aurea (Nutt) Britt (GOLDEN 
DALEA)—A few-stemmed perennial herb about 
1% feet tall, with pinnate leaves and yel- 
low flowers, occurring in the plains and hills 
from South Dakota to Colorado, Texas, and 
Missouri. 
Parosela formosa (Torr) Vail (FEATHER 
DALEA)—A small drought-resistant much- 
branched shrub with tiny pinnate leaves. It 
has been called feather peabush and is a 
handsome plant when in bloom, for the 
flowers are rose-colored with yellowish 
standards. The shrub occurs from Utah and 
Colorado to Arizona and Texas. 
Parryella filifolia Torr and Gray (DUNE- 
BROOM)—A low much-branched drought-re- 
sistant shrub of New Mexico and Arizona. 
It has alternate, odd-pinnate leaves and nar- 
row spikes of small yellowish flowers, which 
are without petals. 
Petalostemum eandidum (Willd) Michx 
(WHITE PRAIRIECLOVER)—A . white-flowered 
perennial herb with several erect stems | to 
3 feet tall, widely distributed in the prairies 
from Canada to Texas and Louisiana. 
Peteria scoparia Gray (RUSH PETERIA) 
—A low spiny herbaceous perennial with 
rather large, greenish, pink-tinged flowers 
and pinnate leaves with tiny leaflets decid- 
uous from the rachis. It occurs in sandy 
areas from western Texas to southern Ari- 
zona but is nowhere abundant. It has a 
small edible tuberous rootstock called cam- 
ote de monte (mountain sweetpotato). 

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