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ith and other mountainous woods and pastures in the north, most 
plentifully. Curt. [High pastures, usually among bushes, and 
“an woods and ditch banks. Bath Hills, near Bungay, Suffolk. 
_ Mr. Woonwih. Grows commonly in hedges or in woods, 
seldom in the open ground. dine 48 in Shortwood near 
Pucklechurch, Gloucest. Mr. Swayne. | -P. July.* 
T. Spikes crowded: blossoms unequal : calyx with 4 of the 
teeth see stipule awned : stems ascending. 
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Fuchs. aie 586-F. Bs ii. 374-Ger. 1017. 1-Matth. 
835—Riv. tetr. 11. 1, Trifolium—Blackw,. 20-Kuniph. i- 
Lonic. i. 104. 4. 
Spike sin * Sitting between 2 opposite sitting leaves, the 
stipule of w are somewhat egg-shaped, dilated, membrana 
ceous, iehinves with red veins, and form a kind of common calyx. 
Cal. of the fruit with 5 awns or bristles, the 4 uppermost very 
much expanding, but the 5th and ‘lowermost aoe. Linn. 
Flowers upright, when out of blossom hanging down. Leafits 
of the lower-leaves roundish, those of the upper oval, slightly 
praten’se. 
downy, dark blackish green, wk a Whitish angular mark in the - 
Centre. Stipule the upper oval, terminated by an awn, scored 
scored with ted veins ; “eat ia tle sa Sonlk > usuall 
tinge d with le. Blass of sige tube Jon ; standard 
ossom. AFZELIUS. 
oat piety yc Trefoil. Cow Clover, Ch- 
ver-grass, Meadow stures. B. May —Sept.t 
Var. 2. smaller. tan me ped heart-shaped, the upper 
Senerally opposite. ‘Spike bare. Ray 
Ray 13. 1. 
* Cattle are not fond of it till it is touched by the frost. From the 
information of a farmer, to whom I pointed out the growing plant in 
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as t scarcity of provisions bread has Bay ay f the flow- 
bdiaxg na Bea re iyat Ss weden to dye hada green. With alum 
they give a light, with pean a dark green 
