34 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
ments not dilated towards the apex. Style filiform, glabrous. 
Stigma obtuse. Pod exserted, linear, usually compressed, slightly 
curved, or nearly straight, many-seeded. 
Herbs, often annual, with the leaves trifoliate, the leaflets 
often toothed. Stipules adnate, small. Flowers yellow or white, 
axillary and subsolitary or in pairs, or in stalked heads or short 
racemes. 
The generic name comes from the Greek words zpec, three, and ywrra, an angle, 
in allusion to the triangular appearance of the flower. 
SPECIES l—TRIGONELLA ORNITHOPODIOIDES. D.¢. 
Pirate CCCXLYV. 
Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 101. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 163. 
Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 398. 
Trifolium ornithopodioides, Zinn. Eng. Bot. No. 1047. Bab. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 79. 
Trifolium Melilotus ornithopodioides, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. p. 1078. 
Medicago ornithopodioides, “ries, Mant. III. p. 93. 
Faleatula Falso-trifolium, Lrotero, Phyt. p. 160. 
Aporanthus Trifoliastrum, Blomfield, Fl. Vect. p. 117. 
Stems prostrate. Leaflets wedgeshaped-obovate, strongly toothed. 
Stipules lanceolate - subulate, entire. Flowers few (1 to 5), ina 
shortly-stalked umbellate head. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, longer 
than the tube. Corolla one-third longer than the calyx; standard 
longer than the wings and keel; the latter nearly as long as the 
wings. Pod oblong, obtuse, slightly compressed, nearly straight, 
about twice as long as the calyx, without nerves on the faces. 
Seeds 6 to 8. 
On gravelly or sandy banks and commons. Rare, but widely 
distributed, though chiefly near the coast. I have seen specimens 
only from Somerset, Hants, Kent, Essex, Ayr, and Edinburgh. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. Spring 
and Summer. 
Stems spreading in all directions, lying flat on the ground, 1 to 
5 inches long. Leaves on long stalks, with 3 digitately trifoliate 
leaflets § to $ inch long, with very prominent veins terminating 
in sharp teeth. Stipules large, acuminated, membranous, with 
a few parallel herbaceous ribs. Peduncles axillary, shorter than 
the petioles, generally 2- or 3-flowered. Calyx-teeth triangular- 
subulaté. Flowers very slender, $ inch long, white tinged with 
flesh-colour. Standard tapering gradually to the base; wings and 
keel suddenly narrowed into long slender claws. Pod + to 3 
