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The Teasel-headed Trefoil (T. maritimum), has a striking 

 resemblance in miniature to the plant after which it is named, 

 It inhabits salt marshes, and we have no specimen. 



The Hop Trefoil flowers in compact yellow heads ; it spreads 

 widely, and is a gay little plant. I gathered it in a Clover field 

 in Swaledale. 



The Lesser Trefoil and the Slender Trefoil (Trifolium minus 

 and filiforme), are of the same habit as the Hop Trefoil (T. pro- 

 cumbens), but very minute. I gathered these plants on the 

 sandy pastures at Hedcar, on the east coast of Yorkshire. 



The Subterraneous Trefoil (T. subterraneum), is one of 

 Fanny's Cornish treasures ; it grows half buried in sandy 

 soil, but the clusters of four flowers manage to raise their 

 heads a little, and look pretty on account of the strong contrast 

 between the crimson throat and white wings of the corolla. 

 The calyx throws out fibres when the flower has faded, by 

 means of which it drags the plant down and buries it. 



The Rough Trefoil (T. scabram), is from Polperro, on the 

 same coast. The calyx-leaves are naked and spreading, and 

 give the clusters a starry appearance ; these grow both at the 

 ends of the branches and from the axils of the leaves. The 

 flowers are pale pink and very small. 



The Strawberry-headed Trefoil (T. fragiferum), grows on 

 the salt marshes between Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare ; 

 its round cluster and small pink flowers appearing from 

 among the teeth of the calices, give it a strong resemblance 

 to a half-ripe Strawberry. Fanny sought the Knotted Trefoil 

 on the spot indicated by Mr. Johns, in his "Week at the 

 Lizard," but in vain. 



The characteristics of the Bird's-foot Trefoils are a five-cleft 

 tubular calyx, and wings the same length as the standard. All 

 the members of the family are yellow. Edward has a beautiful 

 specimen of the Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus major), 

 from the Kentish lanes, and I have them also from Yorkshire 

 ones. The cluster of yellow flowers is large and handsome, 



