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tall melilot
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TALL MELILOT Melilotus altissima F amily LEGUMINOSAE In field corners, bushy hedgerows, and roadside wastes the rambler may come across one of the Melilots. Of the three species found in this country, two have yellow flowers; and until they have ripened their seedpods it is difficult to say whether you have the riative M. altissima or the alien M. officinalis. If the two could be examined side by si de it would be seen that the flowers of the Tall Melilot are of a deeper yellow than the other. The Tall Melilot is three or four feet high, with distant, long-stalked leaves broken up into three slender, oval leaflets with toothed edges. At the base of the stalk there is a pair of bristlelike stipules. From the axils of the leaf-stalk stand out the long, flowering branches, bearing many flowers, all drooping in one direction. The petals are all of the same length. The hairy seed-pod has net-like markings and, when ripe, is black. Flowering from June to August.

 

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It is a perennial that forms a low tuf t or mat by me ans of a number of trailing and rooting branches. The leaves are melilot tall awl-shaped, in pairs and united at their base, ending in a fine hair-like point. The numerous small flowers are borne singly on separate delicate stalks and the parts tall melilot usually in fours, occasionally fives; four sepals, four much smaller white petals (sometimes wanting), four stamens and four curved styles. Aftcr pollination the tip of the stalk curves, so that melilot tall the flower hangs downwards ; but straightens again when the seed-capsule is ripe. Flowers may be found from May to Scptember.
The leaves increase enormously in size after flowering. The flower has no petals. There are five enlarged sepals richly golden-coloured and highly burnished melilot tall. The centre of the cup is occupied by a number of carpels which are surrounded by a crowd of stamens and develop after fertilization into as many follicles containing great tall melilot store of seeds. The plant is poisonous, but the unopened flower-buds are sometimes pickled and used as a substitute for capers.

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