DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Trit'olium. 305 



stems. Lea/lets \\e(]ge shaped , or inversely heart shaped, abrupt, 

 toothed, shorter than the foregoing, and of a brighter green. 

 Stipulas remarkably different, being short and broad, elliptical, 

 pointed, white with green ribs, hairy. Fl. in stalked round heads, 

 or somewhat ovate spikes, erect, crowded, light crimson. Cat. 

 densely clothed all over externally with long, upright, silky, 

 jointed hairs ; teeth nearly or quite equal, awl-shaped, erect, 

 taller than the corolla and twice the length of the furrowed fun- 

 nel-shaped tube ; after flowering enlarged, leafy, spreading } 

 smooth and reticulated with veins at the inside, and tinged at 

 the base with red ; the mouth curiously closed up, with dense, 

 entangled, woolly hairs. Legume concealed, filling the tube, 

 oval, with a single pale seed. 

 T. alopecurum majus, flore purpureo, stellato capite. Barrel. Ic. 

 t. 755, which Linnaeus thought the same plant, with more ob- 

 long heads or spikes, is rather T, incarnatum, Haller's n. 374, 



11. T. cawe7ise. Hare's-foot Trefoil. 



Spikes cylindrical, very hairy. Stipulas lanceolate, bristle- 

 pointed. Calyx-teeth longer than the corolla, perma- 

 nently bristle-shaped. Leaflets linear-obovate. 



T. arvense. Linn. Sp. PI. 1083. Willd. v. 3. 1373. H. Br. 787. 

 Engl. Bat. v. 14. t. 944. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 50. Hook. Scot. 

 218. Fl. Dan. t. 724. Ehrh. PI. O/. 418. 



T. n.373. Hall. Hist. v.\. 162. 



T. arvense humile spicatum, seu Lagopus. Rail Stjn. 330. 



T. lagopoides purpureum arvense humile annuum, seu Lagopus 

 minimus vulgaris. Moris, v. 2. 141. sect. 2. t. 1 3.f. 8. 



Lagopus. Fuchs. Hist. 494./. /c. 281./. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 15. 

 Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 332. f. Camer. Epit. 724. f. 



L. trifolius quorundam, Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 377 ■/. 



L. vulgaris. Dalech. Hist. 441 ./,/. 



L. angustifolia minor erectior. Barrel. Ic. ^ 901, 



Lagopodium, Pes leporis. Ger. Em. 1 193./. 



Lotus campestris. Trag. Hist. 595. f. 



/3. Lagopus perpusillus supinus perelegans maritimus. Dill, in 

 Raii Syn. 330. t.\4.f. 2. 



In sandybarren fields, very common, a useless, if not troublesome, 

 weed. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small, slender. Herb extremely variable in luxuriance, all 

 over finely hairy, of a dull green. Stem erect, in the small ma- 

 ritime variety /3 procumbent, much branched, round, leafy, 

 very hairy. Leaflets narrow, somewhat obovate, abrupt, ob- 

 scurely serrated at the end, with a small bristly point. Foot- 

 stalks shorter than the leaflets. Stipulas ovate, oblique, mem- 

 branous, with red ribs, and each ending in a long, green, taper 



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