DIADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. Trifolium. ' 631 
(1) Metinots. ipa naked, \-celled, sereia! Se- 
Paik sed 
T, Capsules 8-seeded, mostly 3 fogethet, twice as long as Bali tus 
stems declining thopo- 
ag 124—F, dan. 368—Ray 14. Lake 332-Pluk. 68.1. ‘diodes, 
aches egg-shaped. An intermediate plant between Trifo- 
Fie ond _Trigonella. Lixx, Stems prostrate, 2 to 5 inches long, 
in a.circular manner round the root. Leafis 3, sitting, 
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mostly inversely heart- ap sharply and perso é serrated. 
Leaf-stalks long, slender. Stipule spear-shaped, sharp ly pointed, 
rge, in pairs at the base of the leaf-stalks. F weit stb axillary, 
much shorter than the leaf-stalks. Floqwers from Ito 4, but usu- 
ally 2 on a fruit-stalk, parallel to each other. Calyx more than 
half the length of the blossom, pale green, with deeper lines ; 
cloven half way down; segments nearly equal, awl-sha 
Bloss. pale red. Legumens short, thick, terminated by a ort 
point turned downwards, which gives them something of the ap- 
pearance of a bird’s claw. Woopwarp. 
Bird’s-foot Trefoil. Fine short dry sandy pastures and _mea- 
ore and amongst corn. Half a mile from phoma towards 
Sherborn. Near Oxford. ‘Tottlesbury, Essex, on sandy banks © 
by the sea side. Tothi! Fields, Weitmninetets-! Black: heath, 
near London. About Marazi bos Penzance, Cornwall. Mait. 
land Bridge, between Musselburgh and Edinburgh. [Mous- 
hold Heath, near Norwich, Mr. Pr TCHFORD. ] 
a June, July. 
T, Capsules in bunches, often Sgbokd: weilik ied acute: Melilo’tus 
stem upright. ” officina’lis. 
Kniph. 7—Fl. dan. 934-Cmel, iv, 7-Sheldr. 72, Common 
Melilot~Ludw. 113-Ded. 567. Selah obs, 501, 25 and 
ice ii, 48. 2-—Ger. em. 1205. 4-Park. 719. 14° 2=+Ger. 
1034. 3—Riw. tetr. 6, Melilotus—Blackw. 80~Marth. 
1162-Trag. 591—H. ox. ii. 16, row 2. 2-Fuchs. 749- 
F. B. ii. 370-Ger. 1034. 4—Lonic. i. 106. 1. 
Leafits of the lower-leaves oblong-wedge-shaped, those of the 
2 ag sharply serrated toothed. Sripule, the snes 
shaded teeth; ae upper spear-shaped, e 
Benches | lone Blowers bent back, scattered. Pedicles tak, 
* The flowers of all the species, dried and powdered,. may be? made 
in to bread, which in times of scarcity, has preserved the inhabitants of 
Scotland from  perishin ng. The leaves of all the pote fold wp before 
tag The Papilio Cinxia, and the Phalana Fascelina, live upon the differ- 
species 
