262 Mr. C. Babington on the British Species of Lotus. 



in (3 clothed with long spreading hairs, strongly ciliated and 

 fleshy in 7. Stipules ovate, slightly unequal, in h semi-ovate. 

 Peduncles long. Bracteas obovate, slightly unequal. Pedicels 

 very short, 5 — 10 together. Calyx segments about as long as 

 their own tube, shorter in 7, equalling or slightly shorter than 

 that of the corolla, their tips not diverging in the bud, the 

 points of the two upper ones turned towards each other when 

 the flower has expanded, the interstices between the segments 

 rounded. Flowers yellow, claw of the standard much dilated 

 and vaulted transversely. Pods linear, terete, straight, with a 

 long setaceous deflexed rostrum springing exactly from the 

 middle of the apex. Seeds numerous, oval, compressed, 

 smooth. 



Common throughout the British Islands, in fields, on hedge banks, 

 and dry places. 



Fig. 1. L. corniculatus. 



Fig. 2. L. major. 



. .. § 



«f.l. rf.2. rf.3. d.4. d.5. d.6. d.l. d.2. d.3. 



var. «. var. 5. 



Fig. 1. a. Legume, b. Unopened bud, to show the direction of the tips 

 of the calyx, c. The two upper segments of the calyx, to show the rounded 

 space between them and their converging tips. d.l. K lateral leaflet of 

 var. ». d. 2. The central leaflet of var. «,. d. 3. A stipule of var. a. 

 d. 4., d. 5., d. 6. The same parts respectively of var. I. 



Fig. 2. The letters represent the corresponding parts, and all the draw- 

 ings are about the natural size. 



My friend Mr. Borrer, who has had frequent opportunities 

 of studying L. tenuis in a living state, continues fully convinced 

 that it is a truly distinct species, founding its characters upon 

 the much shorter segments of the calyx and the elongated 

 procumbent habit of the plant. I am sorry to be obliged to 



