a place in the flower-border on account of its pretty, numer- 
ous, and long-continued flowers, and of being cultivated in 
the fields as an excellent food for cattle. Our plant, which 
flowers in June and July in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
entirely accords with Sir James Smitu’s description, drawn 
up from the original specimen of Linnazus, and also with 
the figures to which he and Linnzus refer. With this, the 
T. Michelianum of Savi and De Canpo._e seems to corres- 
pond: but whether the T. hybridum of those authors be 
really different, or only a variety, I cannot take upon me to 
determine, without having recourse to authentic specimens. 
Descr. Plant everywhere glabrous. Stems several from 
the same root, simple or slightly branched, hollow, striated, 
zigzag, erect, about a foot high. Leaves upon long foot- 
stalks: leaflets varying considerably in shape, ovate or ob- 
long, sometimes nearly obovate, not unfrequently rhom- 
boidal, sharply serrated. Stipules large, broadly ovate, 
acuminate, membranous, white, streaked with green. Pe- 
duncles solitary, axillary, much longer than the leaf, erect, 
or nearly so, striated. Head of flowers globose, dense. The 
flowers at first erect, and then pale rose coloured, at length 
reflexed with the corollas persistent, orange brown. Pedi- 
cels short. Calyx white, membranous, with five green ribs, 
and five nearly equal, subulate teeth as long as the tube. 
Vexillum acuminated. Wings blunt, much shorter than the 
vexillum, a little longer than the rather acute keel. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. 
