404 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



repens 3. TRIFOLIUM capitulis umbellaribus, legiiminl- 

 bus tetrafpermis, caule repente. Sp. pi. 1080. 

 {Rivin. t. i^. Moris, hiji. f. 2. /. 12./. 2. or dims 

 fuperioris, ^ t. 14.. f. 4, ordinis fuperioris. Michel. 

 Gen. t. 25./. 5. Vail!. Paris, t. 22./. ij 



White creeping Trefoil, or Dutch Clover. Anglis. 



Seamar, Seamrag. Gaulis. 



In meadows and paftures common. 1^. VI-IX. 



The ftalk is round, unbranched, creeping, and 

 about a fpan long : the jlipula are of an oval- 

 lanceolate form, and vein'd : the leaves are ge- 

 nerally ferrated, but variable in their figure, be- 

 ing either roundiih and obtufe, or emarginated 

 and heart-fiiap'd, commonly fmooth and nervous, 

 and often marked with a white arch : the pedun- 

 are very long, and have a pair o{ Jlipul^ at the 

 bafe : the flowers grow in a fphsrical depreiTed 

 head : the younger ones are white and ered, the 

 older a little reddifh and deflex'd : the calyx is 

 either white orpurplifh, marked with ten ftreaks : 

 the feed-veflel appears out of the calyx, and in 

 fair fpecimens contains four feeds, though often 

 only two. 



It is well known to be an excellent fodder for cat- 

 tle, and the leaves are a good ruftic hygrometer, 

 as they are always relaxed and flaccid in dry 

 weather, but ereft in moift or rainy. 



*■** Lagopoda calycibus villous. 



patenfe 4. TRIFOLIUM fpicis globofis viUofis, cinftis fti- 



pulis 



