te’pens, 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Trifolium. 
Sa way down, segments nearly equal. Woopwarn: Bless. 
yellow. 
Melilet Trefoil. Common Melilot. King’s Claws. Hart's 
Clover. Cornfie eld s, meadows, and ditch banks, in stiff soil, 
[Very common in Gloucesteishire.] A. Lryn. Rexx. B. Huns. | 
7 June, Joly." 
(2) Legumens covered; many-seeded. 
Tj io like umbels: legumens 4-seeded: stem — 
re wake dan. 990—Michel. 25. 3 and 4—Riv. tetr. 175 
2, Trifolium repens—Vaill, 22. 1-Dod. 565-Lob. obs. 493° 
2, and ic. ii. 29. 1-Ger. em. 1185. 1—Park. 1110. 1- 
F. B. ii. 380, 3-H. ox. ti, 12. row 1, 2. 
7. undivided, peat. a span long. Szipule circu- 
» but with a sharp point. Leafits nat wee ae blunt. 
Jar, 
Frnt very lon Resins strap-shaped, so Chaff 
Vane Blass. Rae: In aes above re- 
_— it Piers 6 rom th rida Linn. Staple i in paits, 
' oval-spear-shaped, , pea out into an awn 
5 vary- 
ing in shape, but t generally oval and bins sharply serra rrated, with 
a strong mers branching ribs terminating in 
the serratures. Leaf-stalks and vcssuage oi long, upright, rising 
nearly at ri a angles from the st: Flowers in a close h 
he, ; 
aes small, a iri 1 to each speech Cal. teeth nearly 
is partly over, ss heads assume a gc a aiesitincs, the florets 
diverging icy the centre, ‘spreading outwards and downwards 
num 
White Trefil Dutch clover. Meadows ian = inert 
P. May ee 
Var. 2. Bloodwort. Leaves of a deep purple. Sr, 
* This i ts more fragrant when dry than when green. A water distilled 
f, b 
from t wers possesses but little i! initsel 
your of: newt substance ances. tremely fond of it; cows, goats, 
eat it. 
+ Horses, cows, and goats eat it. Sheep are not fond of it. Swine te 
fuse it. The leaves stand a ‘against rain - Linn.— Wherever this 
richness of meadows and pastnsts is Scone eine ip their Se aalng 
principally with the Trefoils, and others of the same cists with a due 
mixture of the more acceptable grasses, Pvireney's Vie 
