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cumbent or reclined, pubescent. Flowers small, purplish red. Calyx 

 deeply furrowed, oval, a little swollen, with live, almost setaceous, 

 straight, not recurved teeth. 



* * * Calyx of the fruit inflated, bladdery. 



9. T. fragiferum, Linn. Strawberry-headed Trefoil. Heads 

 roundish; calyx finally inflated, deflexed, with two terminal 

 teeth ; stems creeping. Br. Fl. 1. p. 330. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 308. 

 E. Bot. t. 1050. 



Moist meadows, not unfrequent, in a black boggy soil. Plentiful 

 near the lake at Sandymount, and in a salt marsh at Portmarnock. 

 Fl. July, Aug. 1. Flowers very small, purplish red. The heads of 

 flowers, an inch in diameter, are often more or less coloured, so as not 

 unaptly to represent a strawberry. Mouth of the calyx, singularly 

 contracted when enclosing the fruit. 



* * * * Standards deflexed, dry and membranous. 



10. T. procumbens, Linn. Hop Trefoil. Heads oval, many- 

 flowered ; standard finally deflexed, furrowed ; stems spreading 

 or procumbent; common footstalk longest at the base. Br. FL 

 I. p. 331. E. Fl. v. iii p. 309. E. Bot. t. 945. 



Dry pastures, frequent. Plentiful near Kingstown. Fl. June, July. 

 0. Stems four to twelve inches long, spreading, hairy. Leaflets 

 obovate, toothed. Heads axillary, small. Flowers yellow, about fifty 

 in each head. 



11. T. minus, Relhan. Lesser yellow Trefoil. Heads he- 

 mispherical ; flowerstalks straight, rigid ; standard nearly even ; 

 stems prostrate. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 310. E. Bot. t. 1256. T.flli- 

 forme a. major, Hooker in Br. Fl. 1. p. 331. 



Gravelly fields, frequent. Fl. June, July. 0. Stem usually from 

 three to nine inches long, but in one variety often extending to two 

 feet. Leaflets inversely heart-shaped. Flowers yellow, from twelve 

 to fifteen, in each hemispherical little head. 



12. T. ftliforme, Linn. Slender yellow Trefoil. Clusters lax, 

 of few flowers ; common-stalks capillary, wavy ; standard even; 

 stems prostrate ; leaflets all nearly sessile. E. Fl. v.iii. p. 310. 

 E. Bot. t. 1256. T.flliforme, /3. microphyllum, Hook, in Br. Fl. 

 1. p. 331. 



In sandy or gravelly pastures, whether dry, or moist. Fl. June, 

 July. 0. From three to eight inches high. Leaflets inversely heart- 

 shaped, or obovate, toothed. Flowers yellow. 



9. LOTUS. Linn. Bird's-foot Trefoil. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft. Wings about as long as the vexillum. 

 Keel beaked. Pod cylindrical or compressed, apterous. Style 

 straight, subulate. Herbaceous, or rarely shrubby plants. 

 Leaves ternate. Stipules leafy. Peduncles axillary, from one 



