Uniquely identifiable characteristics : There is no other flower quite like this; all other melilots of similar disposition are some shade of yellow.

Distinguishing Feature : The numerous spikes of short white pea-like flowers.

Also known as Bokhara Clover from a time when it was grown for fodder. The author could find no leaves that were not half-eaten. The stem is angular, and sometimes ridged.

The large plot of land that the two kinds of Melilots had sprung up in (Ribbed and White Melilot) had been cleared of factories a few years previously to expose the old canal-bed of the Manchester bolton & Bury Canal which starts 500 yards towards Manchester on the River Irwell. This land had initially been cleared for a dry-ski slope which came to naught, now it carries the newly restored Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal with several locks, both old and new, following as far as was practical the old layout (which had changed course and position of locks over the centuries since it was built). For the inaugural re-opening of the canal (as far as it goes at present, which is not far) the land was cleared of vegetation and landscaped again; the Melilots may not return.

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