72 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



variety not often met with. The second, the Lotus tennis, 

 or teunifolius, is a lighter and more delicate plant than the 

 type form, and is chiefly conspicuous from the narrowness 

 of the leaflets ; like the former, it is not a common form. 



The slender bird's-foot trefoil, the Lotus angustissiitiux 

 of botanical nomenclature, has an undoubted claim to rank 

 as an independent species ; its flowers are ordinarily in 

 pairs, the blossoms are much smaller than in the common 

 species, and as the pods are of necessity only in pairs as 

 well the resemblance to a bird's foot is by no means so 

 clear. Unlike the Lotus corniculatus, it is a very rare 

 plant. 



