210 Mn. AFzELius'’s Account of 
lium which appears to be medium, muft certainly by her a/pefre un- 
derftand another fpecies, and perhaps the true one; at leaft fhe 
defcribes the leaves as having fhort footítalks, and being deftitute 
of white fpots; and the teeth of the calyx, efpecially the lowermoft, 
very long and hairy. On account of this laft expreflion, her plant 
might rather be fuppofed Trifol. rubens; but this conjecture falls to 
the ground, when fhe. eye that the heads of the flowers are 
roundiíh. 
The other modern authors who have treated of Trifol. alpefire, 
feem all to have erred. But as in all probability they have not all 
had the fame fpecies in view, any more than has been fhewn to 
have been the cafe with the old writers, I proceed, in order to pre- 
fent in a clear point of view this plant, which all along has been fo 
confufedly defcribed, to enumerate all the 777/272 with which from 
remoter times to the prefent day it has been confounded, and which 
are the following, viz. 
| 1. Trifolium es B. 
As undoubted fynonyms of which I may mention here— 
sers: majus flore purpureo. - Ce. Em, p. 1186. 
n. 1 4. * 
Trifolium montanum majus purpureum. Park. Theatr. 
p. 1103, n. I. * Et Trifolium montanum majus flore 
purpureo. Ibid. p. 1104, n. I. fig. fup. integr. 
- Trifolium purpureum montanum majus fpica oblonga. 
Mor. Hifi. ii. p. 139, n. 1. * Et Trifolium Lagopoides 
montanum, 3. Clus. Ibid. feét. 2, tab. 12, fig. I, 
fec. ord. = 
All thefe authors exhibit one and the fame ‘figure taken from 
Clufius ; and of which, in the next article of Trifol. medium, I thalt 
have an opportunity of {peaking further. As I have faid before, 
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