. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 144 rOPULAIl FLORA. 4. KAnniT-FOOT C. Silky, ]o^v, erect, {\nd branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers â whitish, in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arcisnsc 5. YiiLLOW C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. T. ar/rhriunu Melilot (or Swekt-Clovei:)- Md'dbtus. Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla fal
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 144 rOPULAIl FLORA. 4. KAnniT-FOOT C. Silky, ]o^v, erect, {\nd branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers â whitish, in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arcisnsc 5. YiiLLOW C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. T. ar/rhriunu Melilot (or Swekt-Clovei:)- Md'dbtus. Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling alter flowering. Pod roundish small, liko an akene, hardly opening, containing only one or two seeds. â Ainiuals or biennials, with sweet-scented foliage; leaflets three, toothed. Growing in gardens and around houses. 1. Ykllow Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse; corolla light yellow. JL qfJicuidJls. 2, WiuxK M. Leaflets as if cut ofl' square at the end ; corolla white. Ji. aWa. Medick* Medicaf/o. Flowers like those of ^lelilot, either few or many in a clnstcr. Pod curved or coiled, either kidnej'- shaped or rolled up spirally in various ways. Leaves of 3 leaflets. 1. LiJCEiiNK, or Medick. Stems upright from a deep perennial root; leaflets obovate-oblong ; flowers purple in short racemes ; pods spiral. Cultivated for green fodder. M. saliva. 2. Black ]M. Stems reclining ; leaflets wedge-obovate; flowers yellow, in short spikes; pods curved (Fig. 358), wrinkled, turning blackish. Waste grounds. J/, liqmhnn. 3. Snail M., with 2-flowered peduncles, is sometimes cultivated in gardens, on account of its singular pods coiled like a shell (Fig. 359). , J/. scuidluUi. EverlastingoPea or Vetchling. LcAlnjrus. Lobes or teeth of the calyx not leafy. Style flattish. Otherwise tlie flowers nearly the same as in the true Pea. * Garden species, cultivated for Qrnamcnt; with winged stems and only one pair of leaHcts. 1. Sweet Pea. Root annual; flowers 2 or 3 on a
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