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procumbens. 



liquely triangulai', ciliate, shorter than the petiole: flovA'ers 

 golden-yellow, usually ahout oO, in a dense ovoid head on 

 a peduncle shorter or as long as the leaf ; calyx-teeth un- 

 equal ; standard broad-oboval, becoming brown, furrowed, 

 and turned down like a spoon 

 over the divergent wings and 

 pod. T. canippsfir, Schreber. 



Owing to a difference between 

 the named specimens in the 

 Linntean herbarium and the de- 

 scription in the Species plant- 

 aim m, some botanists have con- 

 sidered this to be T. afjrariuvt, 

 L., which is, however, a some- 

 what different species with sessile 

 leaflets. 



Pasture. — Sept. -Nov. — Europe ; 

 west-ern Asia. 



2. T. dubium, Sibth. (1794). 

 Lesser Clejrer. A more slender 

 plant than the preceding, to 

 which it is closely allied ; stipule 

 of upper leaves about as long as 

 petiole ; heads smaller and looser, 

 with 5-15 flowers; peduncles much Trifolium 

 longer than the leaf; pedicels 



shorter than calyx-tube; standard pale-yellow, only faintly 

 striated in fruiting: wings not divergent. T. vunns, Rel- 

 han (1802). 



Pasture and gullies. — Sept. -Jan. — Europe. 



3. T. filiforme, L. Slender Clover. Still more 

 slender and procumbent than the preceding ; petiolules 

 almost equal : stipules of upper leaves longer than petiole ; 

 flowers 2-8, distinct in small loose heads; peduncles filiform, 

 much longer than leaf; pedicels as long as, or longer than, 

 calyx-tube. 



Moist spots, Mylor, Bridgewater. — Oct. -Dec. — "Western 

 and southern Europe. 



4. T. fragriferum, L. Strawherry Clover. Peren- 

 nial, with the creeping stems, foliage and long peduncles 

 of T. repe)is; flowers pink, almost sessile, in dense globular 

 heads : bracteoles large, united in an involucre equalling 

 the calyxes ; calyx villous, 2-lipped, the upper lip inflated 

 after flowering into a netveined, membranous bladder, its 

 2 sharp teeth protruding over those of the lower lip; the 

 fruiting head, composed of.the.se calyxes, resembles a .straw- 

 berry. 



Pasture, Mount Lofty Range. — Dec. - May. — Europe; 

 western Asia. 



5. T. tomentosutn, L. Woolly Clover. Procum- 

 bent annual, tisually small, glabrous except the calyx; 



