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part by Gerarde and Parkinfon, but entirely by Ray, Morifon, and 
J. Bauhin in the laft-mentioned place, where it is not accompa- 
nied by a figure. But this the author has inferted in the former 
place along with the figure of Trifol. rubens a, which variety he 
has alfo defcribed there himfelf. Dr. Stokes, after the example of 
Profeffor Jacquin, has quoted under his Trifolium flexuofum, not only 
the figure of Clufius, but alfo thofe of Gerarde, Parkinfon, and J. 
Bauhin, to which he has added another by Parkinfon, which re- 
prefents the upper part of Trifol. pannonicum, ox elfe the montanum. 
TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE. 
"Although we have but few figures of Trifol. alpefire and medium, — 
viz. three of the former and two of the latter, thofe of the prasen/e 
are more numerous. If I were to fay I had feen upwards of 
fixty myfelf, it might perhaps, true as it is, found extravagant. Of 
thefe, fifteen or fixteen may be efteemed originals, and all the 
others either copies, or only re-impreffions from the fame plates of 
thofe publifhed before. This laft was moft cuftomary in the two 
laft centuries. And thus thefe ise conftitute feveral fets, 
which, I Íhall briefly, touch, on, adding a few obfervations on their 
In an old book called Ortus Sanitatis, voted a at Venice, 1426, 
in folio, appears a Trifolium, which I fuppofe to be meant for the 
pratenfe ; though, from the barbarifm of thofe times, both figure 
and defcription are fo indifferent, that nothing certain can be af- 
firmed refpeéting them. In the defcription, feveral fpecies certainly 
are confounded; and the figure, though the foliola refemble 
` thofe of Trifol. pratenfe, and the fpike is feffile between the floral 
leaves, ftill erroneoufly reprefents two oppofite leaves nearly in the 
middle of the ftem. In a later edition of this book, publifhed 1517, 
occurs 
