. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. s. MEDICAGO (name originally from the countryMedia). I^egumhidsw. Forty to 50 herbs (rarelyshrubs) in Europe, Asia and Africa, with smallpinnately 3-foliolate lvs. and denticulate Ifts.,and mostly small, pizrple or yellow fls. in beadsor short racemes: stamens 9 and 1, diadelphous:f
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. s. MEDICAGO (name originally from the countryMedia). I^egumhidsw. Forty to 50 herbs (rarelyshrubs) in Europe, Asia and Africa, with smallpinnately 3-foliolate lvs. and denticulate Ifts.,and mostly small, pizrple or yellow fls. in beadsor short racemes: stamens 9 and 1, diadelphous:fr. a small spiral or curved, rough or pubescentindehiscent 1- to few-seeded pod: fl. with an ob-ovate or oblong standard and obtuse mostly shortkeel. Three or 4 species have become weeds inthe East. A few are somewhat cult, for one important species, from an agriculturalpoint of view, is Alfalfa. One species (and per-haps more) is cult, for the odd pods, which aresometimes used by Old World gardeners as sur-prises or jokes, and are occasionally grown inthis country as oddities. Some of the Medicagoessimulate clovers in appearance, but the twisted orspiral pods distinguish them. A. J^Jowers , Linn. Alfalfa. Lucerne. Fig. 1384. Per-ennial, glabrous, growing erect 1-3 ft. and making a. 1382. Maytenus the dehisciug fruit. longtap-root: Ifts. small, linear, oblongtoovate-oblong,prominently toothed towards the top: stipules awl-like,conspicuous, entire: fls. in short, axillary racemes: 998 MEDICAGO pods slightly pubescent, with two or three spirals. Eu.— Now widely cult., particularly in dry regions, as ahay and pasture, being to the what red clover isto the Northeast. See Alfalfa. A hardier and drought-resisting race (known as var. Turkest4nica, Hort.) wasintroduced from central Asia in 1898 by N. E. Hansen,
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