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I. Z. corniculdhis (Common Bird's-foot Trefoil). — A pretty 

 familiar flower ; stems prostrate, ascending ; leaves usually almost 

 glabrous, or with few or many long soft hairs \ flowers in umbellate 

 cymes, 5 — 10 together on long peduncles and* very short pedicels^ 

 generally deep orange in the bud, and varying in the same umbel from 



ANTHYLLis vulnerAria {Cominon Lady's Fingers)^ 



bright yellow to deep brownish-orange : calyx-teeth erect in bud, 

 two upper ones converging : pods about an inch long, diverging 

 like the toes of a bird. — Pastures ; abundant — Fl. June — Septem- 

 ber. Perennial. 



2. L. tenuis (Slender Bird"s-foot Trefoil), differing in its more 

 slender, thread-like steni^ narrower, pointed leaflets^ and fewer and 

 's.Vii'dW^x flowers^ grows in damp places, and is less common. 



