154 BRITISH BOTANY. 



branous^ herbaceous near the summit. Flowers iu oblong-cylin- 

 drical, solitary and terminal spikes, bright purple (carnation), 

 without bracts at the base of the spike. Calyx very hairy, about 

 half as long as the corolla ; the divisions are much spread when 

 in fruit. 



Only here and there of partially spontaneous growth. It has 

 been cultivated for upwards of twenty years, and springs up 

 occasionally in fields and waste places. Annual ; June- August. 



Var. /S. Molinieri, Balb. — Flowers pale-rose; plant smaller, 

 with obcordate leaflets. — Lizard Point,^^'Cornwall. — Eev. W. S. 

 Hore, in ' Phytologist,^ ii. 237.* 



T. stellatum, L. Starry-headed Trefoil. — e.b. 1545. l.b.s. 

 274. 



A. 1. C. 1. Lat. 50-51°. Alt. 0. Tern. 5i°. 



Stems erect or ascending. Leaflets small, obcordate, cuneate 

 at the base, dentate at the summit ; stipules ovate, toothed, ob- 

 tuse. Heads globular, lax, solitary, terminal, on long, hairy 

 peduncles. Calyx-throat closed, with woolly hairs ; divisions of 

 the calyx lanceolate, elongate, with prominent reticulations, 

 hairy, equal, and radiating, much longer than the tube. Seed 

 large, ovate, smooth. ^ 



On the sea-beach near Shoreham/ Sussex. Annual; July, 

 August. 



T. arvense, Lin. Hare's-foot Trefoil. — e.b. 944. l.b.s. 

 275. 



A. 17. C. 60. Lat. 50-58°. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tern. 51-47°. 



Stems usually several, slender, erect, much branched and 

 hairy. Leaves on short petioles, nearly sessile. Leaflets oblong, 

 linear, blunt or trmicate, with silky hairs on both sides ; stipules 

 acuminate-awned. Flowers white or roseate, on oblong, cylin- 

 drical, blunt spikes, without bracts. Divisions of the calyx su- 



* " Whether the plant (Var. ;3. Molinieri) is a mere variety of T. incarnattim I 

 much doubt, and therefore avail myself of the present opportunity to point out the 

 differences between its characters and those fovmd in the diagnoses of the typical 

 form, as given by Koch, Babington, and others. The Lizard plant is in most 

 cases prostrate, but sometimes with a tendency to ascend ; the stipules are narrow, 

 ovate, and acM^e; t\\e throat naked, etc. eic." The author adds : " Whether these 

 discrepancies are of sufficient importance to justify a separation of the two plants, 

 I leave to more able botanists to determine. I should state that not a single spe- 

 cimen with a red corolla was to be seen among the countless numbers which wo 

 observed on this and the former occasions." 



