three Species of Trifolium. 205 
they meant. Upon the whole, indeed, thefe authors are of a local 
ufe only, in pointing out to their own countrymen the places 
where their native plants are to be found. 
In the firft place, therefore, I beg leave to give a brief hiftory of 
each of thefe three Trefoils, and fhew with which each of them 
has been, and ftill is, confounded, together with my reafons for 
what alterations I may have made. In the fecond place, I fhall 
quote the genuine fynonyms of authors, whom I am by fufficient 
reafons convinced to have treated of thefe plants. And, thirdly, I 
fhall add an adequate defcription of each, with particular charac- 
teriftics fufficient at all times to diftinguifh them from each other, 
-and from the fpecies neareft related to them. To begin then with 
TRIE O LIEU M: ALPES TRE 
Clufius is, to my knowledge, the firft who mentions this Trifo- 
lium, in his Hiftory of the Hungarian and Auftrian Plants. He 
has left us no figure; but his defcription, brief and imperfect as 
it is, {till fuffices to convince us that he meant the real one. He 
fays that, both in fhape and fize, it much refembles the preceding, 
which is either Tr. pannonicum or Tr. montanum; but that its 
leaves are fomewhat more narrow; its flowers red, and without 
fmell; its {pikes in general two in number, one of which is fmaller 
than the other, and both of them clofe together at the top of the 
ftalk, without peduncles, and as it were concealed within the upper- 
moft leaves. This defcription he has afterwards introduced unal- 
tered into his larger Hiftory of Rare Plants. 
- Cafpar Bauhin has quoted both thefe paffages of Clufius under 
his Trifolium montanum purpureum majus, in his Pinax; from which 
it indeed appears probable that he meant the fame plant, but it is 
not quite certain ; as he adds, Trifolii altera fpecies major, Gein. and. 
Trifolium: 
