. 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. Gardening. MEDflOLA (u:uiitd after supposed great medicinal virtues), ii Cucumber Root, from the taste of t This native perennial herb has h who bears small and not very showy fls. It is offered by some dealers in native plants. Medeola is nearest to Trillium. The fls. are umbellate, the perianth segments all alike, color
. 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. Gardening. MEDflOLA (u:uiitd after supposed great medicinal virtues), ii Cucumber Root, from the taste of t This native perennial herb has h who bears small and not very showy fls. It is offered by some dealers in native plants. Medeola is nearest to Trillium. The fls. are umbellate, the perianth segments all alike, colored and decid- uous Virginiana, Linn Fi_' 1 s ^tem slendei 1-3 tt high, cl 11 I \ I I 1 1 1 wool lower wli 1 late, pointed,netl I I sessile uppei \\ I 11 t 1 I t top subtending a sessile uml el ot simll lecuned fls lune Bo^'gy soil, >.ew England to Minn , liHl lud southwaid B M 131b D 129 M iniaiaguiiiis Linn = Asparagus medeoloides MEDICAGO (name originally from the country Media) Lttiiiminosa. Forty to 50 herbs (rarely shiubs) in Europe, Asia and Africa, with small pinnately 3 toliolate lvs. and denticulate Ifts., and mostly small, purple or yillow tls. in heads or short racemes: stann-iis'J :niil 1, .: fr. a small spiral or cur\ I'.l, ii'ni;)i or [ii]l)esceut indehiscent 1-to |"h1: II. with an ob- ovate or oblong standard and obtuse mostly short keel. Three or 4 species have become weeds in the East. A few are somewhat cult, for ornament. The one important species, from an agricultural point of view, is Alfalfa. One species (and per- haps more) is cult, for the odd pods, which are sometimes used by Old World gardeners as sur- prises or .iokes, and are occasionally grown in this country as oddities. Some of the Medicae-oes simulate clovers in appearance, but the twisted or spiral pods distinguish them. A, Flowers pnrple. sativa, Linn. Alfalfa. Lucerne. Fig. 1384. Per- ennial, glabrous, growing erect 1-3 ft. and making a. entire: fls. axillary ra
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