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16. LEGUMINOS^. 



Asia. 



leaflets oboval, finely nerved, denticulate; flowers very 

 small, pink, almost sessile, in heads which become dense, 

 globular and tomentose ; peduncles axillary, shorter than 

 the leaf; calyx resembling and undergoing the same changes 

 as the preceding, but the upper lip is swollen into a globu- 

 lar shape, and the 2 teeth are hidden among the cottony 

 down which covers it. 



Roadsides, pasture. — Sept. -Nov. — Mediterranean re- 

 gion. 



6. T. repens, L. White Clover. Glabrous peren- 

 nial with prostrate, rooting stems ; leaves long-stalked, 

 with broad-oval, denticulate leaflets, often with a white 

 horse-shoe in the centre; stipules lanceolate, long-pointed; 

 flowers white, tinged with pink, pedicellate, recurved after 

 flowering, numerous in a globular head on axillary peduncles 

 usually longer than the leaf; calyx-teeth unequal; standard 

 twice as long as calyx ; pod protruding from the calyx, 

 3-4-seeded. 



Generally accepted as the national emblem of Ireland, 

 although the original Shamrock was probably Oxalis aceto- 

 scJla, L. (Wood Sorrel). A garden form has leaflets with 

 dark-purple centre. 



Pasture. — Oct.-Apl. — Europe ; 



7. T. g:lomera.tum, L. 

 Clustered (,'lorer. Glabrous, pro- 

 .strate annual; leaflets oboval, 

 denticulate ; stipules broadly 

 triangular, long-pointed ; flowers 

 small, pink, numerous, sessile, 

 in distant, globular, axillary, 

 .sessile heads ; calyx conspicuou.sly 

 10-nerved, teeth equal, oval 

 acuminate, stiff and recurved in 

 fruit ; standard longer than the 

 calyx; pod enclosed, 1-2-seeded. 



Pasture. — Oct. - Dec. — Western 

 and southern Europe. 



8. T. subterraneum, L. 

 Siihtcrrancan Clover. Slender, 

 prostrate, softly villous annual ; 

 leaves long-stalked, obcordate, 

 faintly denticulate at summit ; 

 stipules oval-acute ; flowers pink- 

 ish, fertile ones usuallv 3 to- 

 gether, becoming recurved on 

 the axillary petluncles, which, 

 turn downwards towards the 

 ground after flowering, the fer- 

 tile flowers having their bases surrounded by several rigid, 

 o-toothed barren calyxes, which begin to grow only after the 

 flowering is over ; fertile calyx with a cylindrical glabrous 



/^ivrnse. *'* camatu/n. ojtous^'ff'twt.t 



Trifolium. 



