. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 144 POPULAR FLORA. 4. Rabbit-foot C. Silky, low, erect, and branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers whitish, in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arvense. 5. Yellow C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. T. agrarium- Melilot (or Sweet-Clover). Melilbtus. Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling after flowering. Pod roundish and small, like an akene, hardly opening, containing only one or two seeds. — Annuals or biennials, with sweet-scented foliage; leafl
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 144 POPULAR FLORA. 4. Rabbit-foot C. Silky, low, erect, and branching; root annual; leaflets narrow; flowers whitish, in dense and soft-silky oblong heads. Common in poor dry land. T. arvense. 5. Yellow C. Low, annual, smoothish; corolla yellow, turning brownish. Waste grounds. T. agrarium- Melilot (or Sweet-Clover). Melilbtus. Flowers in a raceme or spike, small. Corolla falling after flowering. Pod roundish and small, like an akene, hardly opening, containing only one or two seeds. — Annuals or biennials, with sweet-scented foliage; leaflets three, toothed. Growing in gardens and around houses. 1. Yellow Melilot. Leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse; corolla light yellow. M. officinalis. 2. White M. Leaflets as if cut off square at the end; corolla white. M. alba. Medick. Medicago. Flowers like those of Melilot, either few or many in a cluster. Pod curved or coiled, either kidney- shaped or rolled up spirally in various ways. Leaves of 3 leaflets. 1. Lucerne, or Purple Medick. Stems upright from a deep perennial root; leaflets obovate-oblong ; flowers purple in short racemes ; pods spiral. Cultivated for green fodder. M. sativa. 2. Black M. Stems reclining ; leaflets wedge-obovate; flowers yellow, in short spikes; pods curved (Fig. 358), wrinkled, turning blackish. Waste grounds. M. lupulina. 3. Snail M., with 2-flowered peduncles, is sometimes cultivated in gardens, on account of its singular pods coiled like a shell (Fig. 359). M. scutellata. Everlasting-Pea or Vetchling. Ldihyrus. Lobes or teeth of the calyx not leafy. Style flattish. Otherwise the flowers nearly the same as in the true Pea. * Garden species, cultivated for ornament; with winged stems and only one pair of leaflets. 1. Sweet Pea. Root annual; flowers 2 or 3 on a long peduncle, sweet-scented L. odoratus. 2. Garden Everlasting-Pea. Root perennial; flowers many, pink or purple. L. latijalius. * * Wild species, with perennial roots and more than
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