4A ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Perfectly naturalized on the ballast- heaps along Shoreham 
Harbour, where it has maintained its position since 1804. 
England. Annual. Spring and Summer. 
Stems 3 inches to 1 foot high, very slightly branched, and that 
only in the largest specimens. Leaves very distant, the upper ones 
on short stalks. Leaflets + to 4 inch long. Stipules + to 3 inch 
long. Heads? inch across in flower, increasing to 14 inch in fruit. 
Flowers sub-sessile, } inch long, white, tinged with flesh-colour, but 
inconspicuous from the long silky-haired calyx-teeth, which equal 
them in length; the teeth themselves scarcely lengthen in fruit, but 
become much broader at the base, so as to assume an elongate- 
triangular form, and spread horizontally like the rays of a star; 
the mouth of the tube becomes completely closed with the white 
hairs growing at the throat. Pod small, 2-valved. Seed ovoid, 
compressed, smooth, shining. 
This has very little resemblance to any of the preceding species. 
Starry-headed Trefoil. 
French, 7réfle Htoule. 
SPECIES VIL—TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM. Zinn. 
Prarss OCCLLE COCLIII, 
Rootstock none. Stems several (rarely solitary), erect or 
ascending, nearly simple. ‘Leaflets inversely-deltoid-orbicular 
truncate or very faintly notched at the apex, finely denti- 
culate on the apical margin. Stipules sub-membranous, with 
numerous branching veins which do not anastomose, adnate for 
three-quarters their length, with the free portion rather short, 
oval, obtuse. Leaves all alternate. Flower-heads stalked, terminal, 
dense, ovoid or ovoid-cylindrical, slightly elongating in fruit. Calyx- 
tube oblong, 10-ribbed, hairy, the throat having an elevated ring 
bearing short hairs, which do not completely close its mouth; 
teeth subulate-aristate, longer than the tube, the four upper 
ones nearly equal, the lowest a little exceeding them, erect in 
flower, becoming broader at the base and spreading in fruit, with a 
very thick central nerve and long stiff hairs. Corolla about as long 
as the calyx. Plant pubescent. 
Sus-Srecies I:-—Trifolium eu-incarnatum. 
Prate COCLIL. 
T. incarnatum, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. p. 182. 
T. incarnatum, var, a, Auct. Plur, 
