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common, and generally distributed. Like the last species, it 
becomes rarer in the North of Scotland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to 
Autumn. 
This plant is not unlike T. procumbens, but generally smaller 
in all its parts; the leaves of a blue-green, and sometimes not so 
distinctly pinnately trifoliate; the flower-heads are also smaller, 
not having more than 20, and sometimes only 4 flowers. Flowers 
smaller, deeper yellow, changing to dark brown, not so closely 
packed, and appearing still less so from the sides of the standard 
being folded together. The pod shows slightly when full grown, 
and the style is shorter. 
T. minus in the Linnzean Herbarium has no name on the sheet, 
but is pinned to the named sheet of T. procumbens, though 
whether by Linnzus himself or not must of course be uncertain. 
Lesser Yellow Trefoil. 
SPECIES XXL—TRIFOLIUM FILIFORME. Linz. 
Pirate CCCLXVII. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 80. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 170. Hook. & Arn. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 106. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 422. 
T. micranthum, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 195. 
Rootstock none. Stems several, procumbent or prostrate, 
branched. Leaves very shortly stalked, palmately trifoliate; leaf- 
lets wedge-shaped, obovate or oblanceolate, truncate and denticulate 
at the apex. Stipules adnate for less than half their length, the 
free portion ovate, abruptly acuminated. Flower-heads axillary, 
on stalks which exceed their own length, and are usually longer 
than the leaves from which they spring, very lax, few-flowered. 
Flowers on pedicels which are longer than the calyx-tube, at length 
spreading or slightly reflexed. Calyx-tube bell-shaped; upper 
teeth triangular-subulate, shorter than the calyx-tube; lower teeth 
more slender, about equal to it; unaltered infruit. Corolla longer 
than the calyx; standard narrowly oblanceolate, slightly enlarged, 
and very indistinctly ribbed in fruit, a little exceeding the wings 
and keel, folded together longitudinally over the pod, keeled on 
the back. Pod considerably broader than and about as long as the 
standard. Style one-sixth the length of the pod. 
On commons, dry pastures, and waste places. are, or generally 
overlooked. Specimens have been sent me from the counties of 
Cornwall, Hants, Kent, Surrey, Oxford, and Cardigan, also from 
