232 | Ma. AFZELIUS Hiffory of 
Trifol. montanum ; Lobelii Adverfaria, and Thalius, who appear to 
have had the repens in view, at leaft Lobel; Durante, who has 
drawn the Trifol. pratenfe ; and, laftly, Tragus and Dodonzus, who 
on this fubject are fo inexplicit, that I cannot determine their 
meaning. The queftion is then, where is the Trifolium pratenfe 
album of Bauhin to be quoted, whether under repens, pratenfe, or 
montanum ? I think, moft probably under the laft-mentioned, if at 
all; as moft of the authors quoted by him had this fpecies in view. 
sso Seefeld matum P, — 
Trifolium pratenfe purpureum vulgare. Mor. Hif. ii. p. 
138, n. 5. * Et Trifolium pratenfe purpureum. Ibid. 
fe&. 2, tab. 12, fig. 6. 
This plant of Morifon's, generally taken for Trifol: pratenfe, I 
have feen cited in three different manners. Boerhaave in the fecond 
edition of his Hortus Lugdunenfis, Haller in his Stirp. Helv. and 
Seguier in his Plantz  Veroneníes, mention the page without 
taking notice of the figure; whereas Lightfoot and Relhan only 
refer to the figure. Linna EUS € quotes bens : 
As Morifon underthe defcription h? a dire fi 
norat the faid figure referred to the body of the work fora defcri iption 
of it, we are very uncertain whether in thofe two places he had the 
fame plant in view. His confufed defcription, which is for the moft 
part borrowed from C. Bauhin, affords but trifling orrather no infor- 
mation. And although Morifon, in thus confounding feveral fpecies - 
together, may ftill have meant to. point atthe true Trifol. pratenfe, yet 
his figurewill bynomeans fuit that plant; but ratherrefembles 777/2/. 
incarnatum, and perhaps it is even drawn from this fpecies: but, if fo, 
it betraysgreatcareleffnefs in Morifon, whohas, in two places befides, 
defcribed and drawn the laft-mentioned Trefoil ; viz. under Trifo- 
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