4oS . DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



unequal in length, open and recurv'd when old : 

 the flowers whitifh, a little longer than the calyx^ 

 and rarel) opened. 



ftriatum 8. ^ capitulis feflllibus fublateralibus ovatis, calyci- 

 bus ftriatis rotundatis. S. pL 1085, (VailL Paris 

 t. 33./. 2. R. Synop.p. 329 T. it,, f. 3.; 



Soft-knotted Trefoil. Anglis. 



In dry paftures, as in Edinburgh park, abundantly. 

 G.VI. 



This varies with reclining and ercd ftalks, from five 

 to ten inches long, and the whole plant is covcr'd 

 with foft hairs : the upper leaves are wedge-iliap'd 

 and flightly crenated, the lower ones are heart- 

 Ihap'd : the JlipuU are widely oval, membrana- 

 ceous, and ftriated with red branched lines : 

 the heads of flowers are foft and oval, the up- 

 per ones feflile, but the lower ones fometimes 

 have fhort footftalks : the calyces are covered with 

 foft white hairs, and ftreaked with ten prominent 

 lines, and when old become round and inflated : 

 the dents are lliort, and terminated with flight 

 fpinules : the flowers are of a pale red color. 



This plant differs fo little from the preceding, that 

 we have been tempted to think them only varie- 

 ties, arifing from difference of foil ; but as all 

 authors have diilinguifhed them as fpecies, we 

 were unwilling to diflTent from the general opi* 

 Jiion. 



*^** Lupulina , 



