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**■** Lupuiina vexillis corolU injlexis. 

 1 

 agrarium(^ TRIFOLIUM fpicis ovalibus imbricatls, vexillo 



deflexis perfiftentibus, calycibiis nudis, caule eredo. 



Sp. pi. 1087. (Ger. em. 1186./. 6. Moris hifi. f. 



2. /. 13./- 1 ^ 2. majus. Vaill. Paris, L 22. f. 3. 



opt.^ 



Hop Trefoil. Anglis. 



In dry paftiires and corn fields frequent. O. VI. 



VII. 

 The ftalks are hard, branched, a foot high, gene- 

 rally ereCl, but fometimes procumbent : the leaves 

 are nervous and fmooth, and either nearly oval 

 or cordate, or like the fe^or of a circle, with 

 the rays entire and the arc ferrated : the JitpuU 

 are largeft near the top of the ftalk, and of an 

 oval-lanceolate figure : the floral fplkes grow on 

 long, naked peduncles, nearly oval, and confifl: 

 of numerous flowers, clofely fet together : the 

 flowers are yellow, and (land each on its own 

 fhort pedicle, and when ripe are pendulous, dry, 

 and ruftling : the calyx, except tv^o or three hairs 

 at the apex, before flowering is fmooth : the vex- 

 ilium is heart-ftiap'd, deflex'd, ftriated, and flightly 

 ferrated : the Jiliqtm contains one oval, thick feed, 

 fl:anding on a pedicle. 

 It is an excellent fodder for cattle. 



procumhens x. fpicis ovalibus imbricatis, vexillis deflexis per- 

 '^* fiftentibus ; caulibus procumbentibus. Sp. pi. 



loas. 



