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three Species of Trifolium. 211 
Gerard and Parkinfon are cited by Ray, and Morifon by Boer- . 
haave; 
To this place might perhaps alfo be referred— 
‘Trifolium aliud montanum majus. Thal. Herc. p. 123, fq. * 
Trifolium folio longo flore purpureo Riv. Rupp. Fen. 
Ed. Hall. p. 254, fq. * 
Trifolium fpicis fubglobofis villofis terminalibus feffilibus,. 
caule erecto, foliis lanceolatis ferrulatis. Gmel. Sid. iv. 
P- 225 n. 20. 
'Thalius and Ruppius I. have before mentioned ; and have now 
only to add, that Haller alfo in his Stirpes Helveticæ has quoted 
the firft under Trifol. rubens B, p. 584, n. 11. * As to Gmelin, it is 
indeed uncertain what he meant, as he has added no defcription ; 
but if his quotation of Trifolium fpica oblonga rubra, C. B. be true, 
his Trifolium is not a/efre, but rubens. It is poffible too that 
he may have confounded thefe two fpecies, which fo nearly re- 
femble each other, that miftakes might eafily be made, and are the 
more pardonable. Notwithftanding this, they are really diftinét; | 
for, befides the Trifolium rubens being in general larger, its leaves 
are on both fides free from. hairs; and in the edges they are finely 
ferrated by means of the veins running out into fmall curved points 
directed towards the top, fhorter and longer alternately, exactly as 
in Trifol. montanum; both vaginz and ftipulæ, particularly of the 
floral leaves, are much larger, and not hairy; the former fwelling, 
and the latter fomewhat ferrulated: the fpikes in the beginning 
feffile, and concealed within the floral vaginz, exactly as in Trifol. 
alpefire; but afterwards they grow more or lefs pedunculated, oval, 
oblong, or cylindrical: calyx {mooth, but its teeth hairy; and the- 
lowermoft of thefe teeth are as long as the whole flower. 
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