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ments not dilated towards the apex. Style filiform, glabrous. 

 Stiyma obtuse. Pod exserted, linear, usually compressed, slightly 

 curved, or nearly straiglit, many-seeded. 



Herbs, often annual, with the leaves trifoliate, the leaflets 

 often toothed. Stipules adnate, small. Plowers yellow or white, 

 axillary and subsolitary or in pairs, or in stalked heads or short 

 racemes. 



The generic name comes from the Greek words rpitc, three, and yuivia, an angle, 

 in allusion to the triangular appearance of the flower. 



SPECIES!.— TRIGONELLA ORNITHOPODIOIDES. B.C. 

 Plate CCCXLV. 



Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 101. Benth. Handbook Brit. FI. p. 163. 



Gr. & Godr. FI. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 398. 



Trifolium oriiithopodioides, Linn. Eug. Bot. No. 1047. Bab. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 79. 



Trifolium Melilotus ornithopodioides, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. p. 1078. 



Medicago ornithopodioides, Fries, Mant. III. p. 93. 



Falcatula Falso-trifolium, Brotero, Phyt. p. 160. 



Aporanthus Trifoliastrum, Blomfield, Fl. Vect. p. 117. 



Stems prostrate. Leaflets wedgeshaped-obovate, strongly toothed. 

 Stipules lanceolate - subulate, entire. Flowers few (1 to 5), in a 

 shortly-stalked umbellate head. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, longer 

 than the tube. Corolla one-third longer than the calyx ; standard 

 longer than the wings and keel ; the latter nearly as long as the 

 wings. Pod oblong, obtuse, slightly compressed, nearly straight, 

 about twice as long as the calyx, without nerves on the faces. 

 Seeds 6 to 8. 



On gravelly or sandy banks and commons. Rare, but widely 

 distributed, though chiefly near the coast. I have seen specimens 

 only from Somerset, Hants, Kent, Essex, Ayr, and Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. Spring 

 and Summer. 



Stems spreading in all directions, lying flat on the ground, 1 to 

 6 inches long. Leaves on long stalks, with 3 digitately trifoliate 

 leaflets \ to f inch long, with very prominent veins terminating 

 in sharp teeth. Stipules large, acuminated, membranous, with 

 a few parallel herbaceous ribs. Peduncles axillary, shorter than 

 the petioles, geaerally 2- or 3-flowered. .Calyx-teeth triangular- 

 subulate. Flowers very slender, | inch long, white tinged with 

 flesh-colour. Standard tapering gradually to the base ; wings and 

 keel suddenly narrowed into loug slender claws. Pod \ to | 



