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common, and generally distributed. Like the last species, it 

 becomes rarer in the North of Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to 



Autumn. 



This plant is not unlike T. procumbens, but generally smaller 

 in all its parts ; the leaves of a bluc-grccn, and sometimes not so 

 distinctly pinnately trifoliate ; the flower-heads arc also smaller, 

 not having more than 20, and sometimes only 4 flowers. Plowers 

 smaller, deeper yellow, changing to dark brown, not so closely 

 packed, and appearing still less so from the sides of the standard 

 being folded together. The pod shows slightly when full grown, 

 and the style is shorter. 



T. minus in the Linnrcan Herbarium has no name on the sheet, 

 but is pinned to the named sheet of T. procumbens, though 

 whether by Linnaeus himself or not must of course be uncertain. 



Lesser Yellow Trefoil. 



SPECIES XXL— T RIPOLIUM FILIFORM E- Linn. 



Plate CCCLXVII. 



Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 80. Beiith. Handbook Brit. Fl.' p. 170. Uook. & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. lOG. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 422. 

 T. micranthum, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. ed. ii. p. 195. 



Rootstock none. Stems several, procumbent or prostrate, 

 branched. Leaves very shortly stalked, palmately trifoliate ; leaf- 

 lets wedge-shaped, obovate or oblanceolate, truncate and denticulate 

 at the apex. Stipules adnate for less than half their length, the 

 free portion ovate, abruptly acuminated. Flower-heads axillary, 

 on stalks which exceed their own length, and are usually longer 

 than the leaves from which they spring, very lax, few-flowered. 

 Flowers on pedicels which are longer than the calyx-tube, at length 

 spreading or slightly reflexed. Calyx-tube bell-shaped; upper 

 teeth triangular-subulate, shorter than the calyx-tube; lower teeth 

 more slender, about equal to it ; unaltered in fruit. Coi-olla longer 

 than the calyx ; standard narrowly oblanceolate, slightly enlarged, 

 and very indistinctly ribbed in fruit, a little exceeding the wings 

 and keel, folded together longitudinally over the pod, keeled on 

 the back. Pod considerably broader than and about as long as the 

 standard. Style one-sixth the length of the pod. 



On commons, dry pastures, and waste places. Eare, or generally 

 overlooked. Specimens have been sent me from the counties of 

 Cornwall, Hants, Kent, Surrey, Oxford, and Cardigan, also from 



