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plant, and the second Latin name means shaped like a little horn, 

 referring to the fruit, from the Latin corniculum, a little horn. It is 



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called Bird's-foot, Bloom-fell, Boots-and- Shoes, Feal Broom, Butter- 

 and-Eggs, Butter-jags, Cat cluke, Claver, Cat-poddish, Cat's Claws, 

 Cat's Clover, Cheese-cake, Craw-taes, Crow-foot, Crowtaes, Cuckoo's 

 Stockings, Lady's Cushion, Dead Man's Fingers, Devil's Claws, 

 Devil's Fingers, Eggs-and- Bacon, Fell-bloom, Fingers-and-Thumbs, 

 Fingers -and -Toes, God Almighty's Thumbs-and- Fingers, Ground 

 Honeysuckle, Hen-and- Chickens, Jack -jump -about, King Finger, 

 Lady's Boots, Lady's-finger-Grass, Lady's Glove, Lady's Shoes and 

 Stockings, Lady's Slipper, Lamb's Sucklings, Patten and Clogs, Milk- 

 maid, Pig's Foot, Pig's Pettitoes, Sheep Foot, Tommy Tottles, c. 

 The name Cat cluke or Cat-luke is applied from a supposed resem- 

 blance it has to a cat's or bird's foot. 



The yellow Lambtoe I have often got 

 Sweet creeping o'er the banks in sunny time. 



It is a valuable meadow plant, and will grow freely and luxuriantly 

 in damp spots. Mixed with other plants and grasses it affords good 

 fodder for cattle and horses. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



84. Lotus corniculatus, L. Stem prostrate, leaves smooth, obovate, 

 stipules ovate, flowers in an umbel, 5-10, yellow, calyx teeth appressed, 

 points of two upper teeth converging, erect in bud. 



Meadow-sweet (Spiraea Ulmaria, L.) 



Beds of Preglacial, Interglacial, Neolithic, and Roman age (as at 

 Silchester) have afforded seeds of this spec.es. It is found in the 

 North Temperate and Arctic regions of Arctic Europe, Asia Minor, 

 and North Asia. The Meadow-sweet is found in all parts of Great 

 Britain as far north as the Shetland Islands, up to 1200 ft. in York- 

 shire. It is found in the West of Ireland. 



Meadow-sweet is a very common riverside flower, fond of damp 

 places, growing also in hollows in moist meadows, where it is accom- 

 panied by other moisture-loving plants, such as Lesser Spearwort, 

 Water Avens, Bugle, Spear Thistle, various docks, Spotted Orchis, 

 and other plants, amongst which one may name various kinds of 

 rushes and sedges. 



The Meadow-sweet is erect in habit, tufted. The rootstock is 

 short. The stems are erect, furrowed, angular, simple or branched, 



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