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“‘Sus-Specres I.—Lotus tenuis. Xi. 
Pirate CCCLXIX. 
Hook. & Borr. in Eng. Bot. Sup. No. 2615. Gr. & Godr. Fi. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 432. 
L. tenuifolius, Reich. Fl. Excurs. p. 506. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 197. 
Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 47. 
L. corniculatus, var. tenuis, Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 171. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 
ed. v. p. 81. 
L. corniculatus, var. tenuifolius, Zook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 106. 
L. decumbens, Forst. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. ILI. p. 314. 
Stems elongated, slender, wiry, much branched. Leaflets 
acute, those of the lower leaves oblanceolate-elliptical, of the upper 
oblanceolate-linear. Lower stipules strapshaped-lanceolate, upper 
ones linear-lanceolate. Wings oblong-oblanceolate, curved on the 
lower margin of the lamina only at the apex. 
In meadows and waste places, especially on damp or clayey 
soils. Rather rare, but pretty generally distributed in England ; 
rare in Scotland, where it has been found in Linlithgowshire, For- 
farshire, and Kincardineshire. It is not marked in Dr. Moore’s 
Irish list. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
This plant certainly comes very near to L. eu-corniculatus, but 
all the botanists who have cultivated it have found its peculiarities 
constant. Thestems are more wiry and slender, much longer (some- 
times between 2 and 3 feet long), and much more branched ; the 
stolons are more constantly present, the leaves and stipules 
narrower; the peduncles longer and more slender. The flowers 
are smaller, 2 to 3 inch long, and usually fewer in number than in 
L. eu-corniculatus, and the curvature on the under margin of their 
wings is much more abrupt; the keel is less deep; the calyx has 
always fine hairs, and the teeth rather shorter in proportion to its 
length. The pods are rather paler coloured, and the seeds a little 
smaller. 
Slender Birds-foot Trefoil. 
SPECIES I.—LOTUS MAJOR. Scop. 
Puate CCCLXX. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 81. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 107. Sm. Eng. 
Bot. No. 2091. 
L. uliginosus, Schkuhr. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 47. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. 
p. 432. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 197. etch, Fl. Excurs. p. 506. 
L. corniculatus, var. a major, Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 171. 
