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180 
 
 SPECIKS OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS — LAVVSON. 
 
 Transactions Institute Natural Science of Nova Scotia. 
 
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 Art. IV. — On the Canadian Species of the Genus Melt- 
 LOTUS. — By Pkof. George Lawson, Ph. D,, LL. 1)., 
 F. R S. G, F. C. I., &c. 
 
 (Bead March 9, 1885.) 
 
 The object of the following notes is to invite the attention of 
 observei'.s to the distribution of the species and varieties of 
 Melilotus throughout Canada, so as to clear up some confusion 
 that has arisen from imperfect observation, or mistake in 
 nomenclature. 
 
 The Mdlloti are old world plants, belonging originally to 
 EiH'ope, North Africa, and Asia; but we have in Canada at least 
 two well-established species, and one of them, there is reason to 
 believe, has been strengthening its hold ever since the days of 
 the old French settlements at Quebec and in Acadia. In Europe, 
 where these plants are more numerous in species and more 
 abundant in quantity than with us, they are usually found 
 growing on loose sandy soils; on lail way embankments ; rubbish- 
 heaps; river and sea-shoro banks; \vhcre, from land-slides or 
 gradual denudation, a close turf is prevented from forming, 
 and, generally, where the surface soil has been denuded of its 
 original vegetation and left loose enough for the growth of 
 annual or biennial plants. They are especially pi'one to appear 
 on ballast heaps. From the great centres of old world civilization 
 they have spread as colonists over North and South America, to 
 Bermuda, and to other parts of the world far distant from their 
 original homes. 
 
 The plants described by Tournefort under the generic name 
 Melllofiis were included by Linnieus in his genus Trifoliu in, 
 wdiich he divided into five sections. The first section consisted 
 of the Mdlloti, and, in the Species Plantarum, the capital letter 
 M. for Melilotus is repeated c:i the margin before the trivial 
 name of each species, thus : 
 
 
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 Sl'FCIES Oi'" THE GENUS MELlf. )TLS — LAWitON. 
 
 Tlie Trifolium Md'dotus officinalis of Linntvu.s's Species 
 Plantaruin ineltKletl three well defined forms that are now re- 
 garded hy hotanists as well-established species, vi>5 : 
 
 1. The type, or normal form, whieli appears to haveheen long 
 known in France and (HIum- parts of Southern Europe, although 
 & comparatively recent addition to tlui British Floi-a, having 
 been found in England for the first time about the year 1849 or 
 IH'A), and shoi-tly afterwards in iScotlaml. It has been known 
 to English botanists hitherto, mostly, as Lf. rt)'i'6'??si,s, Wallroth, but 
 now appears in Sir Joseph Hooker's Student's Flora (edition of 
 1884) as M. OFFICINALIS Desrou.sscaux, although thd the officin- 
 alis of Willdenow, so commonly quoted by authors. 
 
 2. Linna^us's variety />, variously named by authoi's Trifo- 
 lium, Germanic urn, Smith ; M. vulgaris, Willdenow ; M. leucan- 
 tha, Koch ; M. ALBA, Desi-ousseaux. 
 
 8. The varifitj' g, which has boon recorded as a native and 
 not rare Biitish plant ever since the time of Ray, and which 
 w^as known during the latter part of last and early part of the 
 pres -nt centuiy as Trifollumi ojficitia.le, Hull, subsequently as 
 Melilotiis offitinalis, Willdenow, and is now recognized as M. 
 ALTissiMA, Tluiillier. 
 
 Of the above mentioned three species, two have hitherto been 
 credited to Canada, vi/ : M. alha, Desr., and M. cdtimima,, Tluiil- 
 lier. Respecting M. alba there is no question. It is a well known 
 plant. It appears to be doubtful, however, whether M. altis- 
 sima is established as a Canadian species, although it is so very 
 connuon in Britain. All the Canadian yellow-flowei-ed spt^cimens 
 oi MelilotiLH that have reached me, so far, belong to M. oJjIicina.Hs, 
 Desr., not M. officinalis Willd. Whether the United States plant is 
 M. altissima, or il/. officinalis, I have not ascertained. Possibly 
 we may have both species on this continent, but the only cer- 
 taint}' in the matter is that we do not as yet know the distribu- 
 tion of either. ■ - - 
 
 1. Melilotus okficinalis, Desrousseaux. 
 This species, although, like the others, varial)le in size, habit 
 
 and duration, being sometimes an annual, but usually 
 
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 SPEriES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS — LAVVSON. 
 
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 ballast hills there, where he says the M<'/ilo(an is of compara- 
 tively recent introduction, and they all prove to belong to M. 
 vfficlmiliH, ])esr. That species may thus be regarded as an 
 established plant at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Mon- 
 treal, and as "casual" or imperfectly naturalized at Pictou. 
 At all of the stations where it is now permantmtly natural- 
 ized, it probably owed its origin to the early French set- 
 tlers. It is the species described in Vaillant's Flora Paiisi- 
 ensis, and other French Floras of last century, and seems to 
 have followed the movements of the French people. As regards 
 the plants reported from New Brunswick, Ottawa, Belleville, 
 Toronto, and Lond<;n, Out., they may or may not be referable 
 here. 
 
 MelilotiM ojjieinulis. Desrousseaux, in Lamarck's Diet. IV., 
 p. G3 (Koch), (179C,) Desfontaines, Flora Atlantica, II., p. 191, 
 (Koch). Lois, Flora Gallica, ed. 2, IL, p. 128, excl. syn. Willd., 
 (Koch). Koch, Synopsis Flone Gerujanicje ed. 2, 1, p, 18.'i (1843). 
 Hook, fil. Stud. Fl. Biit. Isl., cd. 3, p. 9G (1884). 
 
 Mel'dotus officinarum Germania'. C. Bauhin Pinax, p. 331. 
 Vaillant, Flora Parisiensis, p. 124. 
 
 Trifoltum Mel'doias ojjticinalis (a). Linn. Species Plan- 
 tarum, p. 1078. 
 
 2\ viilijare. Hayne, in Schrader's Neues Journal fur de Bo- 
 tanik, IL, p. 336(1807). 
 
 AMilotas diffusa. Koch, in DeGand. Flore Francaise, V., p. 
 GC4, excl. syn. a DeCand. (Koch). 
 
 M. nrvensis. Wallroth, Sched., 892 (Koch). Babington, 
 Manual Brit. Bot., ed. 3, p. 72 (1851). Hooker & Walker- 
 Arnott, Brit. Flora, ed, G, p. 99 (1850). Hook, fil., Student's 
 Flora Brit. Isl., ed. 1, p. 90 (1870). 
 
 Mdilotiis ojjiclnalis var. Jiorihus alhis. Koch, Synops. Fl. 
 Ger., ed. 2, I., p. 183. 
 
 Trifoliuni Petltjnerreanum. Hayne, in Schrader's Neues 
 Journ. fur de Botanik, IL, p. 337 (1807). 
 
 Mdilotus Petifpierrewiia. Willdenow, Enumer., p. 790. 
 Reichenbach, Fl. Exc, p. 498 (Koch). Koch, Synop. Fl. Ger., 
 ed. 1, p. 1G7. 
 
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 i>. IOC assS). P- '*•'• *I-0"". Cat. Canai lla^^ I 
 
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 ta..„,„. p. 1078. ■^""«''*. ri.; L,„,„o„», Species Ran- • 
 
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 380 (1812). ^ ^- ^^^^"" ^^- Hort. Kewensis, ed. 2, ly. 
 
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 Manual Brit. Bot., e.l. n, p. 72 (1.S:>1). Hook, c^ \Valk(^i-Arnotb, 
 liiit., Fl.. 0(1. (), p. 08 (1850). 
 
 M. i('ti"itrit/t((: Koch, in DoCandolhj's Flore Fi-aiieaise, V., p. 
 504 (1815). Scrin^'c, in Dei and. Prodronins, II., p. 187 (1825.) 
 Wi^ht, (;at. Ind. Plants, No. 807. \Vi«rht & Walker-Arnott, 
 Prod. Floiu) Penins. Tiuliii' (Jii«!nt., [». l!)0 (excl syii. alfiHHlma, 
 Tlniill). (IS.'U.) I'.ock, Hot., p. 78. Torrey & Gray, Fl., N. Am., 
 I., p. 321. Torrey, Fl., Ni-w York, I., p. 171. Oray, Man. Bot., 
 N. IT. States, ed. 1, p. 108. Hook, Biit. Flora, ed. 5, p. 78 
 (1842). En<.,di.sh Botany Supplement, t. 2080. 
 
 .'J. Melilotus ALTissiMA, T/milller. 
 
 This species is readily distin<fnished by its dull colored, .some- 
 what flattened, pods, which are (listindl ij pnbcsctnit or scahrous; 
 the staudaid, wings, and ktiel of the flower are ecjual in length. 
 
 Many of the iiumurou.s h^calitics given for this ipucius in Can- 
 ada and the Unite<l States probably belong to M. oJflcinali>i, 
 Desi'. I have not, so far, seen a Canadian specimen of M. 
 ultlssima. ' ". 
 
 MclilotaH altlssima. — Thuillier, Flore des environs de Paris, 
 ed 2, p. .S78 and 83. (1700.) Loiseleur-De.slongchamps, Flora 
 Gallica, II, p. 4. (1807.) (Seringe.) Seringe, in De CandoUe's 
 Prodromus, II., p. 187. Hook, fil.. Student's Flora of Brit. Isl., 
 3 ed., p. 00, (1884). 
 
 Trt folium o<JorriJum Hive MrlUotus vulgaris f, ore lideo. J. 
 Bauhin. Rail Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarnm, ed. 
 2, p. 105, (1000). 
 
 Trifoliuiii Mdilotus ojfficinaHs (g.) Linnaeus, Species Planta- 
 rium, II., p. 1078. Willdenow, Sp. Plant, II., p, 1355. Sturm, 
 Deutsch. Fl., fasc. 1, p. 15. (Seiinge.) Hudson, Flora Angliea, 
 ed, 2, p. 822 (1708). Withering, Arrangement of Brit. Plants, 
 III., p. 045 (1700). Linn, Syst. Veget., ed. Litchfield, p. 501 
 (1783). ; •.: 
 
 TrifoUum ojfficlnah.—nuW, British Flora, p. 162 (1700) ; ed. 
 2, I., p. 216 (1808). Smith, Flora Britannica, p. 781 (1800.) 
 Willdenow, Species Plantarum, III., p. 1355 (1801.) Hooker, 
 
Sf'KCIKS OF THK f.'KNMrs Mr.I.rr.OTLJS — LAWSON. 
 
 187 
 
 Flora Scotiea, p. 'M). Smith, Kii<,Mish Flora, III., p. 2!)7. Aiton 
 fil., ilortiiM Kcvvensis, ed. 2, IV., p. .'M) (I Hi 2.) The follo\viii(r 
 Is (]()\il»tfnl: — Ki<,'olo\v, Fl. Ho:iton, p. 10!), 
 
 Trifollinn M('lili>tiiH (dtlssi)niun. — Gindin, II., p. 210 (Koch.) 
 
 Trifolium altinfthnuin. — Lois, Flora (iallica, II., p. 4 (DC, 
 Koeli.) 
 
 Mellfotits q^chuiJifi. Willdenow, Enmiuiratio Hurt. Hcrol., 
 II., pp. 7cS0-')() (Seriiigc, Kocli). ^E.ler, Flora Danica, t. 1):J4 
 (Seriiige). Sorinj.,'0 in l)i'(.'an(loll<ys Prodroimis, II., p. 18G 
 (182.")). Koch, Synopsis Floia; Oeruiuniea) ot Helvetica;, ed. 1 
 p. 106. Hooker, I'ritisli Flora, ed. '>, p 78 (1842). Hooker &; 
 Walker-Arnott, Brit. Fl., p. 08 (18.')()). Babin^rton, Manual of 
 British Botany, ed. .'{, p. 72 (IS.->1). Hook, fil.. Student's Flora 
 Britisl) Islands, ed. 1, p. 00 (1870). The following are more or 
 less douhtful : Elliott, II., p. 100. Torrey, Flora of 'New York, 
 I, p. 170. Torrey & Gray, Flora N. America, I., p. :120 
 (18:^8-40). Chapman, Fl. Southern N, S., p. 00. Gray, Manual, 
 p. 128. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, I., p. 182. Macoun, 
 Catalogue, 1878, p. 11, No. 400. Jones, Tiansactions Nova 
 Scotia Inst. Nat. Sc. Watson, Bibl. Index. Hemsley, Bot. 
 Bermudas, Challenger Report, Botany, vol. 1. p. 28. 
 
 M. macrorhha. Persoon, Synopsis, II. p. 348. Seringa in 
 DeCandoUe's Prodromus, II., p, 187 (Koch). 
 
 3. Melilot'JS Indica, Allloni. 
 
 This is a small, procumbent or ascending, rarely erect, plant, 
 with branches spreading from the base. The raceme." are .short, 
 of very small, almost sessile, crowded flowers, and elongate in 
 fruit ; pods globose-ovate, wrinkled. 
 
 This species occurs chiefly in the warmer parts of the south of 
 Europe and in India. There are specimens from Brazil in the 
 Edinburgh University Herbarium. In North America it had 
 been found, when Torrey and Gray's Flora was published, only 
 at New Orleans, as a recent inti'oduction. It has since appeared 
 in California. It was collected by myself on Wandswortli Com- 
 mon, near London, in 1851, and, subsequently, elsewhere in 
 England by other botanists, but it does noi appear to have 
 
188 
 
 SPEC IKS OF THE f J EN US MET.Tr.OTUS — LAWSON. 
 
 becoiiH! peniifiiiotitly imtuinli/tMl as nn Kii<,Misli plant. Neither 
 (loiiH it soom to linvo spread in tlio Atluiitic States, nor to have 
 reaclu'd ( 'ana'ia. 
 
 Iiidicd app-jars to liave been the first specific name, coupled 
 with the ^eni.'iic term Mrl!luti(n, npplied to this plant, for the 
 juiblications of Allioni, who ^ave it, cxtendiMl (so far as can be 
 ascertained,) oidy froVn 1755 to 178!); but I have at present no 
 means of i-eference to Allioni's works, [)ublished at Turin anil 
 Paris. Desfontainc's' name, /xirvltloi'tt, undei' which this ])lant 
 has more generally passed, was not ])id>lished till the year 17U!>. 
 Th(i Trifolltuii txirvijlorum of Klirliart is a totally difierent 
 plant, a true Tt'ifollnm, the T. sfridam, of Linnseus. — See 
 Sclirader'.s N. Journal, I J., p. 112 (KSOS.) 
 
 MelUvtiiH Ind'iid. Allioni. Bentham in Mart. Fl. Bras. Smith 
 in Ilees' CyclopuMlia. » 
 
 Irifoliiua Md'doiUH Indica d. Linn. Species Plantarum, p. 
 1077. Roxburgh, Fl. Indica, III., p. .S88 ; in E. I. 0. Museum, 
 tab. 411. 
 
 M. iiari'ifloro. Desfontaine, Fl. Atl., II., p. 192. Serin<^'e in 
 DeC'andolle':-, Prodromus, II., p. 187. Hook., Conip., Bot. Ma<,'. 
 I., p. 22. Lawson, Proc. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1851. Torr & Gray, 
 Fl. N. Am., 1., p. 321. Gray, PI., F.ndl., p. 33, PI. Wright, 11., 
 p. 41. Brewer & Watson, B;jt., Calif., I., p. 132. Wallieh, List 
 of E. Ind. Plants, No. 5943. Wight & Arnott, Prod. Fl., Pen. 
 Ind. Orient, p. 190. Hemsley, in Botany of Beiniuda, Ciml- 
 lenger Report, Bot., L p. 29 (1885;. 
 
 M. occidentalis. Nuttall in Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am., I. p. 321. 
 
 M. minima. Roth, Nova> Species priosertim India- Orient- 
 alis, p. 3G1. De Candolle, Prod., II., p. 189. Sprengel, Syst. 
 Veg., III., p. 208. 
 
 The following is a List of the Species and Varieties of Mdilohis, 
 as described in 1825 by Seringe, the monographer of this 
 genus in De CandoUe's Prodromus, Part II., pp. 180-189. It will 
 show the distribution of the several species as known at that 
 time, before railroads and ocean steamships had influenced their 
 
SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS— LAVVSON. 
 
 189 
 
 spread ovor the world. A few additional species have been 
 subser;uerit.y desciibed in the Annales des Sciei'ces Naturelles, 
 and other works, and i lodifications and corrections have been 
 made tlie in nomenclature, in several instances ; but 1 have 
 liinited the list, and retained the names strictly as given in the 
 Prodromus : 
 
 Section I. Gailorutls: 
 
 1. M. Kocliiani. Willd. Enumeratio Plantarum. Hort. 
 Bot. Bcrolinensis, p. 790. (1809.) Germany and France, 
 
 2. M. de7itata. Ibid. Hunj^ary, 
 
 Var. h. awjustfolid. Wallroth, Schedulfe CriticcB Fl. 
 Halens., I, p. 394. (1822). 
 
 3. /!/. linearis. Cavanilles (ex Peisoon, Synops., II. p. 348 
 1807}. Spain. 
 
 4. M. BiUhenica. Bieberstein^ Flora Taurica-Caucasica, p. 
 50G, in note. (1808.) Sarepta, Syria. 
 
 5. il/. indaTiospertML Besser MS. (1824) in DeCand. 
 Prod. (1825). Crimea. 
 
 0. 21. officinalis. WilM. Enum., p. 790. (1809.) Europe. 
 Vnr. b. iingiiicidata. Seringe in DC. Prod. II., p. 187 
 (182.5). Berne and Geneva. 
 
 7. M. i^idustris. Kitabel MS. (183.5) in DC. Prod., II. p. 
 187 (1825). Hungary. 
 
 8. ? M. arhorea. Castagne MS. in DC. Prod., IL, p. 187 
 (li25). Cultivated around Constantinople. 
 
 9. M. nltlssimu. Tliuillier, Flore des environs de Paris, ed. 
 2, pp. 378 and S3. (1799). Paris. 
 
 10. il/. leucantha. Koch, in DeCandolle's Flore Francaise, 
 ed. 3, v., p. 584. (1815.) Europe. 
 
 h. ungincidata. Scringe in DC. Prod., Pars II., p. 187. 
 (1825.) Around Berne. 
 
 11. M. macrorhiza. Persoon, Synopsis, II,, p. 348. (1807). 
 Hungary. 
 
 12. il/. parviflova.. Desfontaines, Flora Atiantica, II., p. 
 192. (1799.) Barbary, Italy, France. 
 
 13 ? M. segttalit. Seringe, in DeCandclle's Prodromus, 
 Pars 11, p. 187. (1825.) Estremadura, Spain. 
 
100 SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELILOTUS— LAWSON. 
 
 14. M. Polonica. Persoon, Synopsis, II., p. ••^48. (1807.) 
 
 p. 188. Poland. 
 
 15. M. Taurica. Seringe in DeCand. Prod., II., p. 18». 
 
 (182.5.) Crimea. ^. 
 
 IG. M. Italica. Lamarck Encyclopedie Methoaique, botan- 
 
 ique, IV., p. 65. (1796.) Italy. 
 
 17. M. gracilis. DeCandolle, Fl. Frangaise, V., p. oOo. 
 (1815.) Southern parts of France. , ,. , tt 
 
 18. M. pallida.-Bes^ev MS. (1824,) in DeCand. Prod., II., 
 p. 188. (1825.) /olhynia, West Russia. 
 
 19 i M. suaveolens. Ledebour, Enumeratio Plancarum Hort. 
 Bot. Dorpatensis. Supplement. 1824, p. 5. Near Nertschinsk, 
 
 Dahuria. 
 
 Section 2, Plagiorutis. 
 
 20. M. arvensis. Wallroth. Sched. Crit., p. 391. (18^^.) 
 
 Germany. 
 
 Yai: h.alb'ifivm- WalkoLli, 1. c, p. 392. , tt 
 
 21. M. degans. Salzmann MS. in DeCan*'' ^ro^' I^-' P- 
 
 188. (1825.) Corsica. ' tt 
 
 22. M. Besser -a. Seringe MS. in DeCand. Proa., 11., p. 
 
 188. (1825.) Crimea? 
 
 Sections. Gampylor litis. 
 
 23 M Messanensis. Desfontaines, bl, At.., 11., p. i^'^- 
 a799.> Barbarv, Sicily, Piedmont. Straits of Messina. Said 
 io be 'the Loto^ of the Greeks ; Lotus of the Romans, Virgil 
 Georgics, B. I., 84 B. III., 394. 
 
 24. M. sidcata. Desfontaines. 1. c. (1799.) Algiers. Alex- 
 
 ^"vat h. Liljanctica. Seringe, in DC Prod., II., p. 189. (1825.) 
 Mount Lebanon. 
 
 SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 
 
 25. 3f. Baametti Hornemann. Hortus Reg. Bot. Hafniensis 
 Supp p 84. (1819.) INative country unknown. 
 
 26.' M. minima. Roth, Nova) Species Plantarum, p. 361. 
 
 India. , , ^ _„ ^ . 
 
 27. il/. Neapolitana. Tenore. Prod, bupp., L, p. 66. Cata- 
 logue, 1819, p. 57. Near Naples.