three Species of Trifolium. 233 
llum purpureum et annuum, folio birfuto rotundo, Trifolii pratenfis albi 
Jorma, Mor. Hift. i. p. 140, n. 3. * Et Trifol. lagopoides Trifolit 
pratenfis folio, Ibid. feét. 2, tab. 12, fig. 3. And under Trifolium 
purpureum lagopoides hirfutum annuum rotundifolium, fpica diluiè rubente, 
Mor. Hift. ii. p. 140, n. 6. * Et Trifolium lagopoides rotundif. birfut. 
Ibid. fect. 2, tab. 13, fig. 6, a leaf only. The complete figure re- 
prefents Trifol. anguflifolium. This Linnzus has not quoted; but 
the whole of the paflage immediately preceding, which belongs to 
Trifol. incarnatum, he has inferted under his Trifol. fquarrofum. 
Finding myfelf unable to extricate this confufed Trifolium pratenfe 
purpureum of Morifon's, I wrote a letter fome time ago to Profeffor 
Sibthorp at Oxford, afking the favour of him to examine the old 
Herbariums under his care, in order to difcover whether they might 
not throw fome light on the matter. His anfwer is as follows: 
* 'The plant in Bobart's Herbarium, under this title of Morifon's, 
* 1s Trifol. ochroleucum; which, however, as I never faw it with 
** purple flowers, I can fcarcely think Morifon meant. But there 
_ is a paflage in the defcription of his Trifolium lagopoides an- 
* nuum hirfutum pallidé luteum feu ochroleucum, p. 141, n. 12, 
* which feems to point at his Trifolium prateníe purpureum; 
“ namely, Vide ejufdem iconem in tab. Moema, ante lagopoides penna- 
*€ tum, et refer huc propter colorem, extra gregem Trifoliorum fpicatorum 
* feu lagopoideorum flore purpureo illic donatorum. The figure I confefs 
& has a confiderable refemblance to that of Trifol. incarnatum; 
& but this has an annual, not a perennial, root.” 
6 ^ rifolium mibi ignotum. 
Trifolium pratenfe. Gmel. Tubing. p. 227.* — 
This is quoted by Reichard in his Syftema Plantarum; but as 
Gmelin fays that it has caulis procumbens, folia lanceslata, and capi- 
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