92 LEGUMINOS^E. [TniFoi.n M. 



entire or notched ; stipules lanceolate, adnate to the middle. //..//.< |}-1 in. 

 broad. F hirers pale yellow, brown when old. Calyx ribbed, half as lon.u 

 as the petals. Pod striate, opening by the conical top falling away. 

 DISTKIB. Europe, from Belgium southwards, W. Asia. 



6. T. praten'se, L. ; more or less pubescent, leaflets oblong, stipules 

 membranous free portion appresse-d to the petiole, heads terminal sessilr 

 globose, at length ovoid, subtended by opposite leaves with nmeh-dilati'd 

 stipules, calyx-teeth slender setaceous, erect or spreading in fruit, the lowest 

 longest, lied (Jlocer. 



Pastures, roadsides, &c., both wild and cultivated ; ascending to 1,900 ft. in 

 the Highlands ; fl. May-Sept. Annual or perennial. Stems 6-24 in., solid 

 or fistular, robust or slender. Leojttts -2 in., often marked with a white- 

 spot or lunate band, finely toothed; stipules often 11^ in., with long 

 setaceous points. Heads ^-1^ in. diam., pink purple or dirty white. ' 

 tain with a 2-lipped contraction in the throat, strongly nerved ; teeth not 

 exceeding the petals, very slender, unequal. Pod opening by the top falling 

 off. DISTKIB. Europe (Arc tic), N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia to India ; introd. 

 in N. America. Extensively cultivated for fodder. 



7. T. me dium, L. ; slightly hairy, leaflets oblong obtuse or acute, sti- 

 pules herbaceous free portion spreading, heads subglobose terminal slu.rtly 

 peduncled subtended by opposite leaves, calyx-teeth setaceous spreading 

 in fruit, lowest a little longest. Meadow Glover. 



Pastures, meadows, &c. ; ascending to 1,300 ft. in the Highlands ; fl. June- 

 Sept. Perennial. Stems straggling, flexuous. Leajiets 1-2 in., rather rigid, 

 almost quite entire, ciliate. Heads 1-1^ in. diam. Flowers $ in., rose purple. 

 Ciiti/.i--t/<i-<it with a ring of hairs, tube 10-nerved, glabrous ; teeth reaching 

 halt'- way up the petals. Pod dehiscing longitudinally. DISTKIB. Europe 

 (Arctic), Siberia, W. Asia ; introd. in N. America. 



8. T. maritimum, Hudson; pubescent, leaflets narrowly obovutc- 

 oblong obtuse or acute, stipules herbaceous free portion linear-subulate 

 spn-a.iing, beads terminal ovoid very shortly peduncled subtended by 

 opposite leaves, calyx-teeth short triangular-subulate spreading and her- 

 baceous in fruit, 4 upper shorter than the tube. 



Salt marshes and meadows, from Gloucestershire and Norfolk southwards ; fl. 

 June-Aug. Annu: ;n., rigid, decumbent or ascending. .'. 



-^ in., almost quite entire. Heads in., terminal, elongating in fruit. 

 l!aiyx with a 2-lipped contraction in the throat ; tube ribbed ; teeth reach- 

 ing half-way up the petals. Pod 2-valved. DISTKIB. W. and S. Europe 

 from Holland to Spain, and thence eastwards to Dalmatia, N. Africa. 



9. T. stria'tum, L. ; softly hairy, leaflets obovate, stipules membranous 

 free portion broadly triangular tip recurved, beads sessile terminal and 

 axillary ovoid, calyx veutricose, teeth short spinescent triangular-subulate 

 1-nerved .spreading in fruit. 



Dry pastures in England ; rarer in Scotland from Forfar southwards ; very 

 rare in Ireland; tl. June-July. Annual. Stems 4-12 in., spreading, j-ro- 

 trate or ascending. Leajiets -% in., almost quite entire, petioles 2 in. ; 

 stipules of the leaves under the heads very much dilated. Heads -J in., 

 dense, broadest at the base. Flowers in. rosy. Calyx-tube ovoid, ribbed, 



