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 Trifolium Spadiceum. Bay-Coloured 



Trefoil, 



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C/iz/} a«<f Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Flores fubcapitati. Legumen vix calyce longius, non dehifcens, 

 deciduum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TRIFOLIUM fpadiceum s fpicis ovalibus imbricatis, vexillis 

 deflexis perfiftentibus, calvcibus pilofis, caule 

 ereQo. Sp. PL 1087. Ait. Hort. Kcw. v. 3. 

 p. 90. 



TRIFOLIUM caule ere&o, fpicis flrepentibus ovatis. Halt, 

 Helv. n. 365. 



TRIFOLIUM montanum lupulinum. B.inh. Pin. 328. Prod. 

 140. Park. Theat. 1105. 



LUPULINUM montanum capitulis fpadiceis. Rupp. Jen. 207. 



LOTUS montanus aureus amplo lupuli capite, annuus. Bay'''. 

 Plant. 812. Ic. 1024. 



A native of moft parts of Europe, but not of Great-Britain, 

 Has been cultivated for fome years in the Botanic Garden at 

 Brompton, where it has been the praftice to raife it under a 

 frame, and then plant it out in the open border ; but molt 

 probably would fucceed as well if fown with other hardy an- 

 nuals in the places where it is intended to remain, being indi- 

 genous as far north as Sweden. It is a pretty little plant, both 

 from its delicate foliage and fine chefnut-brown fpikes crowned 

 with golden-coloured flowers. How it came to be called in. 

 the Hortus Kewenfis pale-jlowered, we are at a lofs to guels> 

 except by an accidental error for bay-flow'ered. 



We obferve, as remarked by'LtNN^us, that the two upper 

 teeth of the calyx are obfolete or entirely wanting. 



