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of fields. Plant slender, from 6 inches to a foot long, either pro- 

 cumbent or erect. Leaflets obovate or obcordate, the middle one 

 distant from the others. Flower-heads broadly oval, dense and 

 many-flowered; flowers small and yellow, standard becoming 

 striated as the flowers fade. The whole head has a Hop-like ap- 

 pearance. Frequent in pastures. Torquay. Marychurch, etc. 

 (E. B. t. 945.) A. VI.-YIII. 



13. T. minus (lesser yellow T.) By roadsides and in dry 

 pastures. More slender and procumbent than the last ; flowers 

 not so numerous in the heads, and paler ; the standard narrower, 

 and more faintly striated. Ilsham. Marychurch, etc., frequent. 

 (E. B. t. 1256.) A. vi.-vm. 



14. T. filiforme (slender yellow T.) In sandy or stony pas- 

 tures and in waste places near the sea. Stems seldom attaining 

 6 inches in length ; leaflets narrow, and the centre one placed 

 immediately between the two others. Flowers from 2 or 3 to 5 

 or 6 in a head, very small. Starved specimens of T. minus are 

 very often mistaken for this. According to Bentham, " rare in 

 Britain," though set down as " frequent " by Hooker and Arnott. 

 Park Hill. Mound at Ellacombe. Ilsham Down. King's Kers- 

 well, on the rocky mound near the Church. (E. B. t. 1257.) A. 

 VI. VII. 



LOTUS. BIRD'S-FOOT TEEFOIL. 



1. I*, corniculatus (common B.) In meadows and pastures. 

 Plant varying in size from 2 inches to nearly 2 feet long ; stems 

 decumbent or erect ; leaves ovate and pointed. Flower-heads in 

 the form of an umbel, from 5- to 10-flowered, flower-stalks long ; 

 flowers bright yellow, the outside of the standard frequently red. 

 Pods about 1 inch long, containing globular seeds. Daddyhole 

 Plain. Meadfoot. Babbicombe. The variety & villosus ; rocks 

 near Hope's Nose. (E. B. t. 2090.) P. vi.-vm. 



2. la. major (narroiv-leavedB.) In moist meadows and along 

 the sides of ditches. More generally luxuriant in its whole 

 growth than the last, of which it is most probably a highly de- 

 veloped form. Heads with from 6 to 12 flowers in the umbel. 

 Road to Ansti's Cove. Marychurch. Walks at Meadfoot. (E. 

 B. t. 2091.) P. VL-viii. 



3. Ii. angustissixnus (slender B.} In meadows, pastures, 

 and fields. Rare. A slender, branched, and hairy plant, with 

 narrower leaflets than L. corniculatus. Flowers small, solitary, 

 or 2 or three in the umbel. Pod slender, about ^ an inch long. 

 Meadfoot. Petit Tor. Eoadside between Lindridge and Bishops- 

 teignton. (L. diffusus, E. B. t. 925.) A. v.-vm. 



