04 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Dublin. I have never seen this species in Scotland, though I 

 have often looked carefully for it. 



England, Scotland ? Ireland. Annual. Spring to 

 Autumn. 



Extremely like small slender forms of the last species, but with 

 the leaves more shortly stalked, and the central leaflet not inserted 

 higher on the common petiole than the lateral ones. The flower- 

 heads are much more lax, 2- to 7-flo\vered ; the flowers smaller, 

 much more distinctly stalked, and more evidently racemose, less 

 reflexed after flowering ; the standard much narrower, with its sides 

 not reaching down to the middle of the pod, which is more obovate 

 and W'ith a shorter style. 



This is T. filiforme of the Linnaean Herbarium. 



Least Yellow Trefoil. 



French, Trefle Filiforme. German, Fadenformiger Klee. 



This little species of Trefoil abounds in dry pastures, especially on sandy or cal- 

 careous soils, and often forms a considerable portion of the turf in those jilaces. It is 

 extremely nutritive, and must therefoi-e be considered as a useful pasture plant, though 

 too small to be worth cultivating separately. Like the hop ti-efoil, it is an annual. 

 Cattle and sheep are so fond of it, that a specimen can scarcely be had in any pasture 

 to which they have access. 



Sub-Tribe IV.— EU-LOTEiE. 



Stamens diadelphous, the upper one being free from the other 

 nine. Pod with incomplete spurious transverse partitions between 

 the seeds. Leaves trifoliate, with entire margins and no excurrent 

 nerves. 



GENUS X— L O T U S. Lmn. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed ; teeth narrow, elongate, nearly 

 equal. Corolla deciduous; standard obovate-roundish, spreading, 

 longer than the wings and keel ; wings connivent and contiguous 

 at the upper edges ; keel with an acuminate beak directed towards 

 the standard. Stamens diadelphous ; filaments unequal, the alter- 

 nate ones longer and dilated at the apex. Style attenuated 

 towards the summit, simple, glabrous. Pod more or less exscrted, 

 cylindrical, with imperfect cellular partitions between the nume- 

 rous seeds, opening by two valves, which afterwards generally twist 

 spirally on their own axis. 



Herbs or undcr-shrubs, with trifoliate leaves ; leaflets with entire 



