64 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Dublin. I have never seen this species in Scotland, though I 
have often looked carefully for it. 
England, Scotland? Ireland. Annual. Spring to 
Autumn. 
Extremely like small slender forms of the last species, but with 
the leaves more shortly stalked, and the central leaflet not inserted 
higher on the common petiole than the lateral ones. The flower- 
heads are much more lax, 2- to 7-flowered; the flowers smaller, 
much more distinctly stalked, and more evidently racemose, less 
reflexed after flowering ; the standard much narrower, with its sides 
not reaching down to the middle of the pod, which is more obovate 
and with a shorter style. 
This is T. filiforme of the Linnean Herbarium. 
Least Yellow Trefoil. 
French, 7réfle Filiforme. German, Fadenformiger Klee. 
This little species of Trefoil abounds in dry pastures, especially on sandy or cal- 
careous soils, and often forms a considerable portion of the turf in those places. It is 
extremely nutritive, and must therefore be considered as a useful pasture plant, though 
too small to be worth cultivating separately. Like the hop trefoil, it is an annual. 
Cattle and sheep are so fond of it, that a specimen can scarcely be had in any pasture 
to which they have access. 
Sus-TriBE I[V.—EU-LOTE. 
Stamens diadelphous, the upper one being free from the other 
nine. Pod with incomplete spurious transverse partitions between 
the seeds. Leaves trifoliate, with entire margins and no excurrent 
nerves. 
GENUS X—LOTUS. Linn. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed; teeth narrow, elongate, nearly 
equal. Corolla deciduous; standard obovate-roundish, spreading, 
longer than the wings and keel; wings connivent and contiguous 
at the upper edges; keel with an acuminate beak directed towards 
the standard. Stamens diadelphous; filaments unequal, the alter- 
nate ones longer and dilated at the apex. Style attenuated 
towards the summit, simple, glabrous. Pod more or less exserted, 
cylindrical, with imperfect cellular partitions between the nume- 
rous seeds, opening by two valves, which afterwards generally twist 
spirally on their own axis. 
Herbs or under-shrubs, with trifoliate leaves ; leaflets with entire 
