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Trifolium Incarnatum. Crimson 



Trefoil. 



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Clajs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Flores fubcapitati. Legumen vix calyce longius non dehifcens 

 deciduum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TRIFOLIUM incarnatum fpicis villofis oblongis obtufis 



aphyllis, foliolis fubrotundis crenatis. Linn. 



Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 689. Ait. 



Kew. v. 3. p. 87. 

 TRIFOLIUM fpica rotunda rubra. Bauh. Pin. p. 328. 

 LAGOPUS maximus flore rubro. The greateft Haresfoot. 



Park. Tb. p. 1106. f. 1 . 

 TRIFOLIUM album incarnatum fpicatum f. Lagopus 



maximus. Bauh. Hift. 2. p. 376. 



Of the annual fpecies of 'Trifolium cultivated by the curious 

 here, this is one of the largeft, as well as one of the molt 

 ihewy ; the bloflbms in the plants which we have had an 

 opportunity of obferving, have been of a bright crimfon 

 colour, and have therefore correfponded badly with the name 

 of incarnatum, originally applied to the plant by fome of the 

 old botanifts, and adopted by Linn.eus; like other Trefoils 

 with red flowers, the bloflbms are doubtlefs found With 

 different (hades of colour, and fomctimes wholly white. 



It is a native of Italy, a hardy annual, cultivated here by 

 Parkinson in 1640, flowers in July, and readily ripens its 

 feeds, by which it is eafily raifed. It appears to have been 

 loft out of this country fince its fir ft introduction, as it is not 

 mentioned by Miller; Mr. Aiton enumerates it among 

 the productions of Kew-Garden, and we laft fummer fatf 

 feveral plants of it raifed from foreign feeds (lowering in die 

 garden of John Symmons, Efq. Paddington-Houfe, Pad- 

 dington, who has to boaft a collection of hardy herbaceous 

 plants fuperior to mod in this country ; his readinefs to oblige 

 me with fpecimens for drawing on this occafion, and his 

 various afts of kindnefs exerted in the promotion of my 

 botanical views, I have to acknowledge with much gratitude. 



