DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Trifolium. 307 



13. ^ . glomeratum. Smooth Round-headed Trefoil. 



Heads sessile, axillary, hemispherical, smooth. Calyx- 

 teeth heart-shaped, reflexed, veiny. Stems prostrate. 



T. glomeratum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 084. Willd. v. 3. 1375. FL Br. 789. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 15. t. 1 063. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. ^. 5 1 . 



T. cum glomerulis ad caulium nodos rotundis. RaiiSyn. 329. 



T. supinum cum glomerulis ad caulium nodos globosis, floribus 

 purpurantibus, RaiiHist.v.l.^AS. Pluk. Alniag.377. Phijt. 

 MI3./. 5. 



T. parvum rectum, flora glomerato cum unguiculis. Bauh.Hisl. 

 r. 2. 378./. 



T. arvense supinum verticillatum. Barrel. Ic, t. 882. 



In gravelly fields and pastures, chiefly in the east and south of 

 England. 



About Saxmundham, Suftblk, and about London. Ray. In the 

 isle of Shepey. Huds. On Kew Green, and Hanwell Heath, 

 Middlesex. Bishop of Carlisle. On the bath hills near Bungay, 

 Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. At Yarmouth. Mr. D. Turner, In a 

 pasture adjoining to Mackerel's tower, Norwich. [At Sandgate, 

 Kent. Mr. G. E. Smith.] 



Annual. June. 



Whole herb very smooth, with a tapering, branching, tuberculated 

 root. Stems quite prostrate, straight, slender, striated, but little 

 branched, from 3 to 12 inches long. Leaves rather distant, on 

 footstalks of various lengths ; leajlets obovate, abrupt, finely 

 toothed, veiny, sometimes marked with a pale transverse spot. 

 Stipulas ovate or oblong, membranous, ribbed, taper-pointed. 

 Heads axillary and terminal, solitary, sessile, hemispherical, or 

 nearly globular, many-flowered, quite smooth in every part. C'al. 

 bell-shaped, strongly furrowed, with ten ribs, pale or reddish ; 

 the teeth nearly equal, heart-shaped, pointed, reflexed, veiny, 

 green and leafy. Cor. longer than the calyx ; standard rose- 

 coloured, striated J wings and keel shorter and paler. Legume 

 round, very small, with a solitary seed. 



This is neither a Scottish nor a Swiss plant. The small reflexed 

 calyx-teeth, leafy in colour and texture, always quite smooth, 

 readily distinguish it from all our other species. 



14. T. Striatum. Soft Knotted Trefoil. 



Heads sessile, axillary and terminal, ovate. Calyx ellipti- 

 cal, furrowed, hairy ; with straight bristle-shaped teeth. 

 Stems procumbent. 



T. striatum. Linn. Sp. PL 1085. mild. v. 3. 1376. FL Br. 700. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 26. t. 1843. Hook. Scot. 219. Ehrh. Herb. 88. 



T. parvum hirsutum, floribus parvis dilute purpureis, in glomerulis 

 mollioribus et oblongis, semine magno. Raii Syn. 329. t. 13. 

 /. 3. VaiU. Par. 196. <. 33./. 2. 



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