DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 407 



The ftalk is ered and branched, and the whole 

 plant covered with a foft down : the leaves are 

 narrow, and nearly linear, emarginated at the 

 end, the nerve terminated with a fpinule : the 

 JiipuU are linear, and have long beards : the ftalk 

 and branches are terminated with oval or cylin- 

 drical fpikes, covered with a thick afli-color'd or 

 feddilh down : the calyx is bell-lhap'd and hairy, 

 and has five dents, which are longer than the 

 flower, and are feathered with down : the Corolla 

 is very fmall and reddifh : the feed-veffel is tu- 

 mid, fphsrical, and contains one feed. 



It is fuppofed to have an aftringent quality, and has 

 fometimes been ufed in dyfenteries, but is not 

 known in the prefent pradice. 



TRIFOLIUM capitulis fcflilibus lateralibus ovatis, 

 calycinis laciniis insequalibusrigidis recurvis. Lin. 

 fyji. nat.-p. 54;^. Sp. pi. 1084. {Batrelier ic, 870. 

 Vaill. Paris, t. 33./. i.) 



Hard-knotted Trefoil, Anglis. 



On dry foils by the fea fhore near Edinburgh. Dr. 

 Parfons. O . VI. 



The root throws out feveral tough proftrate ftalks, 

 about four inches long : the leaves are a little 

 hairy, veined, wedge-fhaped, or wideft and 

 rounded at the end, and very finely crenated : 

 the Jii-pula are oval and acute : the heads of 

 flowers fmall, flightly oval, axillary, feflile and 

 rigid : the dents of the calyx are Iharp and ftifl^, 



unequal 



