32 CALYCIFLOB^. 



TRIGONELLA. FENUGEEEK. 



T. ornithopodioides (bird's-foot Fenugreek.) In dry, sandy 

 pastures ; stems prostrate and spreading, 2 or 3 inches long ; 

 leaflets congregated at the summit of the stalk, obcordate, toothed. 

 Clusters axillary, stalked, of from 1 to 3 small, nearly white flow- 

 ers ; pod curved, compressed, transversely furrowed, 6- to 8-seeded. 

 Babington says, this plant is scarcely a Trifolium or Trigonella. 

 Paignton sands. Trifolium, Linn. (E. B. t. 1047.) A. vi. vn. 



TRIFOLIUIVI. CLOVEE, TEEFOIL. 



1. T. repens (white Trefoil, or Dutch Clover.) In meadows 

 and pastures. Stems creeping and rooting at the joints ; leaflets 

 obovate or obcordate, with usually a dark spot at their base. 

 Flower- stalks long and erect, bearing a roundish head or umbel 

 of white flowers, often pinkish. Pod protruding beyond the calyx, 

 and covered by the withered corolla ; seeds from 2 to 4. Yery 

 common in pastures, etc. (E. B. t. 1769.) P. v.-ix. 



2. T. pratense (common purple C.) Frequent in meadows 

 and pastures. Stems hairy from 1 to 2 feet long ; leaflets oval, 

 or obcordate ; flowers in dense ovate sessile heads, reddish-purple, 

 sometimes white; pod generally 1-seeded; flower-heads with 2 

 sessile trefoiled leaves at their base. Abundant everywhere. (E. 

 B. t. 1770.) P. v.-ix. 



3. T. medium (zigzag T.) In open woods, bushy pastures, 

 banks, and waysides. Differing from the last in its zigzag stem 

 and stalked flower-heads ; it has also narrower stipules and leaf- 

 lets. Flowers in large heads, purplish. Woods and banks near 

 Torquay. Near Ide on the Moreton road. (E. B. t. 190.) P. 

 VI.-IX. 



4. T. incarnatum (crimson C.) In open places near the sea. 

 An erect, slender, and softly hairy plant, naturalized in a few 

 places in the south of England ; leaflets obcordate ; flower-heads 

 ovate or cylindrical; flowers rich crimson. Meadows about Tor- 

 quay, but probably cultivated. The variety /3 of Hooker and 

 Arnott, with yellow flowers, is said to be " decidedly indigenous" 

 at Lizard Point, Cornwall. (E. B. S. t. 2950.) A. vi. vn. 



5. T. arvense (hare's-foot T.) In cornfields, dry pastures, 

 and on sandy banks. Stem from 6 to 12 inches high, erect, and 

 much branched ; leaflets lanceolate, blunt; flower-heads numerous, 

 cylindrical, soft and hairy ; flowers very small, pale pinkish- white ; 

 the projecting hairy teeth of the calyx give the heads a peculiar 



