5i ENGLISH BOTANY. 



In fields and by roadsides. Var. a perfectly naturalized near 

 Saffron "Walden, Essex; var. in clover-fields about Moulsey, 

 Chessington, and Claygate, in Surrey, but not permanent in these 

 localities. Both are occasionally found throughout the country, 

 cither introduced with clover-seed, or the remains of a crop sown 

 for fodder. 



[England.] Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high, branched, flexuous. Leaves of 

 the radical tufts and base of the stem on petioles often 3 or 4 inches 

 long. Leaflets f to Ij inch long, with the lateral veins excurrent, 

 forming more or less projecting teeth. Stipules herbaceous towards 

 tlie apex, but white with green veins towards the base. Peduncles 

 from the axils of the upper leaves, commonly 2 to 4 inches long. 

 Flower-heads f to 1 inch across, becoming mucli flattened on the 

 upper side by the bending down of the flowers after flowering, when 

 tlie elongate arched pedicels become visible at the apex of the head. 

 Flowers about f inch long, whitish, tinged with pale rose. Calyx 

 somewhat membranous, whitish, with the teeth green, the upper 

 teeth a little longer than the others. Corolla with the standard 

 folded down over the fruit, retaining its shape but turning brown 

 and membranous, striated. Pods ovoid, obtuse at the apex, com- 

 pressed, not bossulated. Seeds flattened, and notched at the hilum. 

 Plant bright-green, with the leaflets having often a white mark in 

 the centre. Stems and peduncles with a few adpressed hairs, but 

 otherwise the plant is glabrous. 



I fully concur in Mr. Baker's remark in his " Flora of North 

 Yorkshire," that T. hybridum and T. elegans cannot be specifically 

 distinguished ; neither the British nor the German and Scandina- 

 vian specimens which I have received under these names show any 

 greater difference than that between the cultivated and wild forms 

 of the Red Clover, yet Continental authors are so generally agreed 

 as to the existence of two species, that I suspect there must be a 

 " T. elegans," of which no examples have come under my notice. 



Alsike Clover. 



French, Trejle Ilyhride. German, Bastard Klee. 

 Sometimes cultivated in this country, but much less generally than the Red Clover. 



SPECIES XVI.— TRIPOLIUM REPENS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCLXII. 



Bootstock branched. Stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, the 

 extremities sometimes ascending. Leaves on long stalks ; leaflets 

 oval or obovatc, rounded or slightly notched at tlic apex, sharply 



