68 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



E-ootstock elongated, branclied throughout its length, emitting 

 numerous stolons. Stems decumbent or ascending, branched. 

 Peduncles three to seven times as long as the leaves. Heads 3- to 

 12-flo\vered. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, spreading in bud, the 



2 uppermost triangular diverging, separated by an acute sinus ; 3 

 lower triangular contracted into subulate, rather shorter than the 

 tube. Flowers twice as long as the calyx or more. Standard with 

 the claw not dilated, gradually widening into the lamina. Pod 

 cylindrical and not beaded when ripe. 



Var. a, sub-glaber. 



Sub-glabrous, with the leaflets ciliated at the margins. 



Var. /3, hirsuttis. 



Leaves, stem, peduncles, and calyces with long spreading hairs. 



In meadows, marshes, and by the sides of ditches. Common, 

 and generally distributed, but less so than the preceding species. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



This species resembles the last, but the mode of growth is differ- 

 ent, as the lu'anches are given off at intervals along the rootstock 

 and not all from near the same point, so that the plant does not 

 form dense tufts. The stems are stouter, and generally taller, 1 to 



3 feet high. Leaflets obovate, ^ to 1 inch long, rounded or some- 

 what acute. Stipules ovate, generally shorter than the leaflets, 

 moi'e perfectly sessile than in L. eu-corniculatus. Plowers gene- 

 rally more numerous, with the pedicels rather longer, and the 

 calyx-teeth spreading like a star instead of being connivent in bud. 

 Standard with the claw not dilated and bulged into a hump ; wings 

 with the curvature commencing near the apex of the lower margin ; 

 keel with the beak forming an obtuse and not a right angle with 

 the lower margin of the lamina. Pod less depressed when ripe than 

 that of the last species. Plant deep dull-green, slightly glaucous, 

 varying much in hairiness ; but in this country, according to my 

 experience, the sub-glabrous forms occur more frequently than the 

 extremely hairy ones. 



Marsh Birds-foot Trefoil. 



SPECIES III.— LOTUS ANGUSTISSIMUS. Linn. 

 Plates CCCLXXI. CCCLXXII. 

 BeiUh. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 171. Hook. & Arn. Brit; Fl. ed. viii. p. 107. 



Rootstock none. Stems several, slightly branched. Peduncles 

 one to three times as long as the leaves. Calyx-teeth nearly 



