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is not difpleafing to cattle. The flowers arc 

 fweet-fcented. 



It has generally been efteemed emollient and digef- 

 tive, and been ufed in fomentations and cata- 

 plafms, particularly in the plafter employed in 

 drefllng blifters, but is now laid afide, as its 

 quality is found fo be rather acrid and irritating 

 than emollient or refolvent. 



It communicates a mod loathfome flavor to wheat 

 and other grain, fo as to render it unfit for mak- 

 ing bread. 



TRIFOLIUM leguminibus nudis oclofpcrmis fub- 

 ternis calyce duplo longioribus, caulibus declina- 

 tis. Sp. pi. loyS. (Pluk. t.6S.f. i. jnaia. Raj, 

 Synops. p. 331. /. 14./. I. Oed. Dan. 368. opt.) 



In dry or fandy paftures, but rare. Rev. Dr. Burxcfs 

 oi Kirkmkhad. O. VI. /3 f^^lf /rr^ ^"^r^A^^ - 



The branches are three or four inches long, and lie 

 proftrate and clofe to the ground about the root : 

 the leaves ternate, heart-fhap'd, ferrated, and 

 Hand on long footftalks : the Jtipul^ are lanceo- 

 late and grow in pairs : the peduncles are axil- 

 lary, Ihorter than the footftalks of the leaves, 

 and bear moft commonly two, but fometimes 

 three or four narrow pale red flowers : the pods 

 are fhort, blunt, ereft, and flightly recurv'd, 

 each containing fix or eight feeds. 



** Lotoidea leguminibus teflis, polyfpermis. 



D d z TRIFOLIUM 



