three Species of Trifolium. 227 
tom. ii. p. 233. * But the Englifh botanifts, who ought to be 
better acquainted with it, feparate it from the Trifol. ochroleucum, 
fince, befides other differences, it has purple flowers; and they make 
it.a variety of Trifol. pratenfz, on account of its having a fimilar, 
though ftarved appearance; the ftipulæ being in like manner 
awned, and the teeth of the calyx likewife nearly equal, as Dr. 
-Sibthorp and Mr. Hudfon have informed me. But it differs in 
other refpects very materially; having the leaves oppofite ; the fo- 
liola fmall, fhort, and inverfely heart-fhaped; and the peduncle 
very long, and deftitute of floral leaves. 
The other plants that have been confounded with Trifol. pra= 
čenje, though widely differing from it, are the following, viz. 
3. Melampyrum arvenfe. : 
"Trifolium majus. . Bruzf. Herb. tom. iii. p. 47. 
This paffage in Brunfels, Cafpar Bauhin has quoted under his 
Trifolium pratenfe purpureum. But to judge from the figure annexed, 
for there is no fuch thing as defcription, the plant is by no means 
any Trefoil, though called fo, but certainly a Melampyrants as 
John Bauhin has already remarked in his Hiftoria, tom. i 
and which Haller in his Stirp. Helv. p. 626, n. 2, has taken for 
the arvenfe, which indeed it appears to be. This figure of Brun- 
fels’s is a re-impreffion of one in his Herb. 11 p. 58, where it has 
only obtained a German name. 
2. Trifolium repens. 
Trifolium pratenfe. Lob. Adv. p. 380. Hifl. p. 493. (ed. 
Lat. 1576.) P. ii. p. 35. (ed. Belg. 1581.) Icom die p. 
29. Dodod. Pempt. p. 5506. (ed«1583.) p.565. (ed. 1616.) 
et p. 898. (ed, Belg. 1644.) Ger. Emac, p. 1185; n. 1. 
Gg2 Trifolium 
