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MELILOTUS leucantha.
White-flowered Melilot.
DIADELPHIA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Legume one- or few-seeded, indéhiscent,
longer than the calyx. Petals distinct, deciduous.
Flowers racemed.
Spec. Char. Legumes 2-seeded, ovate, wrinkled.
Racemes lax. Corolla twice as long as the calyx.
Keel and wings shorter than the standard. Stem
erect.
Syn. Melilotus leucantha. “ Koch.” DeCand.Fl.
Fr. v. 5. 564. Ser. in DeCand. Prodr. v .2 .187.
Hook. Br. FI. 327.
Melilotus vulgaris. Willd. Enum. 790.
Trifolium officinale ß. Linn. Sp. PI. 1078. Sturm,
Deutschl. FI. cum ic. Lloyd, Scot. PI. “ Sm.
FI. Grceca.”
Trifolium germanicum. Sm. in Rees’s Cycl.
T h i s plant is undoubtedly distinct from the Melilotus
officinalis, and is probably not uncommon : yet we do not
find it noticed by any British author, even as a variety of
that plant, till its appearance in the British Flora. We
gathered it very many years ago upon the Denes at Yarmouth
: and Mr. Lloyd published specimens, which he
gathered in corn-fields at Aberlady Bay, near Edinburgh,
in his Fasciculi of Scottish Plants. Since those stations
have been given in the British Flora, J. S. Mills, Esq. has
informed us that he finds it at Chipstow, Surrey; James
Kendrick, M.D. has found it near Warrington; N. J.