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I pinkish white color. It is a nitrogen iixer, and from our ex-
perience with it would seem calculated to serve well in poor
soils as a green manure. The seeds are not edible, being bit-
. ter, but the young plants may be fed to stock.
Lzqbz'm¢s hirsuius (BLUE LUP1NE).—This is grown for the
same purpose as the white lupine, but in our plots proved a
much slighter and less vigorous plant, with very slender
(linear) leaflets. Height about two feet. Pods in a terminal .
cluster, 1 $5, inch long. Seeds much smaller and rounderthan
those of the white lupine, of a gray blue color, mottled with ‘
` white. The seed did not germinate well, and only a few
plants were secured.
Lu_/mms Zzdeus (YELLOW LUP1NE).—This plant is somewhat
like the preceding. Leaflets nine, linear-oblanceolate. Flowers
yellow. VVhole plant gray, and about 1 1 inches high in plot,
with a very long tap-root measuring I3 inches in a plant pulled
up by hand. The seeds did not germinate well, and the few ,
~ plants secured did not thrive. Seeds about the same size as
those of the blue lupine (% inch in greater diameter), but
Hatter. Yellow, speckled with black. Both plant and seeds
make good feed for stock. The lime in our soil may explain '
its failure in the plots, since it is said to be partial to sandy
soils.
flfedimga [79757l/I-lid (BLACK MED1c1;).—A rather slight, in-
troduced annual clover, in our plots not producing as much
forage as white clover, and otherwise not very promising.
Flower clusters rather less than ff inch in diameter and bright
» yellow, appearing about May 23,, when the average height of
plants is about 8 inches. Some plants came up the second
season, but it is practically an annual here. The plant is fre-
quently found along roads and in fields, growing spontaneous-
ly, the seeds having been scattered witl1 other clover or grass
seeds.
The seeds, contained in black pods (coiled at tips), are ripe
]une 20. The seeds themselves resemble very closely those of
red clover, but can be distinguished by the presence of a small
prominence or tnbercle next the scar. They are said to be