TKIFOLIUM.] LEGUMINOSJE. 95 



Pastures, roadsides, &c., ascends to near 1,000 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. June-Aug. 



Annual. Stems 6-18 in., central erect, lateral decumbent. Leaflets -% in. , 



toothed; petioles -^ in., slender; stipules ^-ovate, tip triangular, acute. 



Heads J-f in. diam. Flowers pale yellow, upper pedicelled. Calyx eam- 



panulate, upper teeth triangular, very short ; lower longer, lanceolate. 



Standard i in., brown, shining. Pod obovoid ; style hooked. DISTRIB. 



Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia ; introd. in N. America. Syme shows 

 ' this to be T. jtrocumbens of Linn. Herb. ; it may or may not be the T. 



mi, -I/, -'1,1,11 of Linn. Sp. Plant. 



17. T. minus, Sin.; nearly glabrous, leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaf- 

 lets narrow-obovate or obcordate, heads dense-flowered, pedicels veiy short, 

 standard narrow keeled folded over the pod. T. procumbens, Huds. 

 Pastures and roadsides, &c. from, Isla and Banff southwards ; ascends to 



1,000 ft. in the Lake district; fl. June-Aug. Annual. Stems 10-20 in., 

 straggling, slender. Leaflets truncate or notched, finely toothed ; petioles 

 very short, slender ; upper part of stipules ovate, acuminate. Heads 

 4-20-flowered, much smaller than in T. procumbens; peduncles long, 

 slender. Flowers yellow, small, turning dark brown. Calyx and 

 much as in T. procumbens. DISTRIB. Europe and Canaries ; introd. in 

 f. America. This is the T.filiforme of foreign authors ; and there is much 

 confusion in its nomenclature and that of the preceding and following. 



18. T. filifor'me, L. ; sparsely hairy, leaflets obcordate or obovate, heads 

 axillary, peduncles slender, flowers few subracemose, pedicels as long as 

 the calyx-tube spreading or reflexed, standard keeled folded over the pod. 

 Dry pastures often near the sea, rare, from Oxford and Cardigan southwards ; 



also in Fife and Clackmannan in Scotland ; rarer in Ireland ; fl. June-July. 

 Annual. Stems 4-8 in., very slender, prostrate. Leaves pinnately or 

 digitately 3-foliolate ; upper part of stipules ovate, acute. Leaflets fa-fc in., 

 toothed at the tip. Heads very small, 2-6-flowered ; peduncles capillary. 

 Flomrs yellow. Calyx and pod much as in the two last species. DISTRIB. 

 Europe to the Caucasus. 



9. ANTHYLLIS, L. KlDNEY- VETCH. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, with a tenninal leaflet ; stipules 

 small or 0. Flowers in capitate cymes, sometimes involucrate, yellow- 

 white or red-purple ; bracts various or 0. Calyx inflated, mouth oblique, 

 5-toothed. Petals with long claws, those of the 4 lower adnate to the 

 staminal tube ; standard auricled at the base ; keel incurved, gibbous on 

 each side. Filaments all united, or the upper free ; anthers uniform. 

 Style smooth, stigma terminal ; ovules two or more. Pod enclosed in the 

 calyx, obliquely ovoid, dehiscent or not, 1-3-seeded. DISTRIB. Europe, 

 Asia, N. Africa ; species 20. ETYM. The old Greek name. 



1 . A . Vulnera'ria, L. ; silky, stems herbaceous, leaflets 2-6 pairs. 

 Dry rocky banks, rather local; ascends to 2,400 ft. in the Highlands; fl. 

 June-Aug. Rootatock woody, short, branched. Stems 6-16 in., many, leafy, 

 herbaceous, suberect. Radical leaves 2-4 in., pinnate, unequal ; leaflets 

 -1^ in., narrow-oblong. Heads -lJ in. diam., in pairs, rarely solitary, or 

 with small accessory ones, the pairs peduncled, but each sessile ; involucre 

 of subsessile linear appressed or spreading leaflets. Flowers J-f in. Calyx 

 membranous, longer than the petals ; teeth minute, ovate, acute ; mouth 



