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bunches of hairs. Leaves small, rather blunt, and as well as 

 the stem, hairy. It flowers in June and July, in corn fields 

 and dry pastures, growing a few inches high. 



HOP TREFOIL. Trifolium procumbens. 



Plate II, fg. 18. 

 Flowers yellow, many together. Stem prostrate. 



Known at once by the numerous, dense heads of yellow 

 flowers, like hops, and quite unlike those of any other species. 

 It grows in dry pastures, and in the borders of fields, flowering 

 in June and July. 



O. S. Bird's-foot Trefoil, Subterraneous Trefoil, Sulphur-colored Tre- 

 foil, Zigzag Trefoil, Teasel-headed Trefoil, Starry headed Trefoil, Rough 

 Rigid Trefoil, Smooth Round-headed Trefoil, Suffocated Trefoil, Soft- 

 knotted Trefoil, Strawberry -headed Trefoil, and Reversed Trefoil. 



BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL. LOTUS. 

 COMMON BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL. Lotus corniculatus. 



Platell.fig. 19. 



This is not to be taken for the elegant little plant before 

 mentioned called Bird's-foot, that has many leaflets and a 

 jointed pod ; this has smooth long pods, about three or four 

 together, spread out like a bird's-foot, it has three leaflets in 

 each leaf, and therefore its name Trefoil must be used. The 

 flowers are on long stalks, yellow, streaked with red, and each 

 bunch of flowers with a small leaf attending it. Stipules of 

 the size and shape of the leaflets. Stem creeping. Flowers 

 appearing in July and August on almost every pasture and 

 waste ground. 

 O. S. Three other species that do not differ much from the above. 



MEDICK. MEDICAGO. 

 BLACK MEDICK, or NONSUCH. Medicago lupulina. 



Plate 11, fig. 20. 



A little plant which creeps over the earth in pastures and 

 cultivated ground, in appearance much like the Hop-Trefoil ; 

 the pods which are very numerous, and twisted and black when 

 ripe, show at once the difference between them. The leaves 

 are three together, roundish, stalked, and slightly hairy. 



